More Change Means Less Food

Everyone needs to make money, it is the one way they can provide for themselves and their family. With money, people buy houses, pay bills, they buy clothing, and buy food for their family as a way to show their love and respect for one another. But people take the amount of money they take in for granted. Many people in the U.S. each year go broke buy buying things that they feel like they need, even if they can't afford it. Every day, more and more people are left on the streets to starve. But buying things they can't afford isn't always their fault. Food prices go up and down on the charts every day. One day, bananas may cost $1.00 a pound, but then next, they may only cost $.50 a pound.  This roller coaster ride is due partly to climate change. In the article, "Climate Change Seen Posing Risk to Food Supplies", it says that "Climate change will pose sharp risks to the world’s food supply in coming decades, potentially undermining crop production and driving up prices at a time when the demand for food is expected to soar, scientists have found." If nothing is done to prevent Global Warming, soon, none of us will have food.

The article "Climate Change Seen Posing Risk to Food Supplies" by Justin Gillis can be found on the New Your Times link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/02/science/earth/science-panel-warns-of-risks-to-food-supply-from-climate-change.html?ref=science&_r=0

Scientists say that "They are already seeing the harmful effects in some regions." Climate Changes are caused when people release greenhouse gases (like CO2) into the air. This can also be referred to as the Greenhouse effect or Global Warming. Each year, we let out more and more green house gases, and every year the risk of food supplies increases. In the article it says that "The warning on the food supply is the sharpest in tone the panel has issued. Its previous report, in 2007, was more hopeful."

All the time, scientists do experiments to see how certain crops will react to the climate change. They see how well they will survive, and  how much they will produce with infinite amounts of Carbon Dioxide in the air. The groups of scientists that experiment with "main reports every five to six years."

To all the negatives, there is a positive. For Climate Change effect the food supply, the negatives are that there won't be enough food to supply people with and that the extreme weather conditions will result in animal extinction, the benefit would be that northern lands could produce more food than they do now, "On the food supply, the new report finds that benefits from global warming may be seen in some areas, like northern lands that are now marginal for food production." But the one positive doesn't cancel both or one of the negatives, instead that "global warming could reduce agricultural production as much as 2% each decade for the rest of this century." With the production rates decreasing by 2%, the demand rate for food is predicted to raise by about 14% as the population is growing. The United Nations predicts that by 2050, "9.6 billion, from our 7.2 billion today, will acquire to eat richer diets."

With the giant increase of people, will lead to an even bigger demand for food. But "Any shortfall would lead to rising food prices that would hit the world poor hardest as has already occurred from price increases of recent years." There will be more and more people to feed, and the average size of a person will increase.  Global food demand can be met in the future by putting new farms and new ranches to use. If this were to happen, it would  be good for the economy but terrible for the climate or environment, which is basically the main topic of this article. More and more people would get good paying, easy jobs that don't take that much work. But with a farm comes animals, and automobiles. Animals and automobiles together are very bad for the environment. Animals are constantly banging and pounding on the soil which kills the plants. Automobiles, like tractors, are also very bad for the environment because of the gas they need to work productively,  the smoke that comes out of them, as well as pounding all over the ground.

But it is never too late to change this Climate Change from happening. Although it may be costly and the changes wouldn't be seen for a few hundred years, people that are here now should be thinking about the future instead of getting caught up where it doesn't count. In the New York Times article, it says that "The document also finds that it is not too late for cuts in emissions to have a strong impact on the future risks of climate change, though the costs would be incurred in the next few decades and the main benefits would probably be seen in the late 21st century and beyond."

Life is too short to be made perfect. But it is your one shot to do something that counts and could be later known as life changing. Most planned out dreams do not come true, only a few do every now in then. So instead of failing over and over again at making your life perfect, why don't you set the future people up for success.

Teamwork is everything. You will find it being used in almost everything you do. Team work is basically impossible to escape. No matter how hard you try, people will be using teamwork. It separates tasks and activities into steps that are easy and capable of accomplishing. So why don't people make it easier for themselves and other people and use teamwork to provide for their family. In the end, money is still the most important thing right? Money , money, money, and more money. People need to stop thinking about yourself and start thinking about how you effect others.