better eat your cereal while you can still pay for it

[ensho]

http://us.oneworld.net/external/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.earthpolicy.org%2FUpdates%2F2008%2FUpdate71.htm


Melting Mountain Glaciers Will Shrink Grain Harvests in China and India


The world is now facing a climate-driven shrinkage of river-based irrigation water supplies. Mountain glaciers in the Himalayas and on the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau are melting and could soon deprive the major rivers of India and China of the ice melt needed to sustain them during the dry season. In the Ganges, the Yellow, and the Yangtze river basins, where irrigated agriculture depends heavily on rivers, this loss of dry-season flow will shrink harvests.

The world has never faced such a predictably massive threat to food production as that posed by the melting mountain glaciers of Asia. China and India are the world’s leading producers of both wheat and rice—humanity’s food staples. China’s wheat harvest is nearly double that of the United States, which ranks third after India. With rice, these two countries are far and away the leading producers, together accounting for over half of the world harvest.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports that Himalayan glaciers are receding rapidly and that many could melt entirely by 2035. If the giant Gangotri Glacier that supplies 70 percent of the Ganges flow during the dry season disappears, the Ganges could become a seasonal river, flowing during the rainy season but not during the summer dry season when irrigation water needs are greatest.
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[GreenPartyVoter]

1. My kids live on ceareal :^( Bread too

[DJ13]

2. Hey, I've got an idea!

Lets pay the farmers to sell their grain and corn to the ethanol producers, that will help ease the problem.....

:sarcasm:

[Warpy]

3. Meat is going to get very, very expensive

and meat eaters are going to have to go back to using it as a flavoring in another entree rather than the main event of the meal.

Kiss that slab o meat goodbye, folks, unless you want to go into hock for it. It's going to be soups, stir fries and casseroles from now on. What has been used to fatten meat animals will now need to go to feeding humans.

[BadgerKid]

5. Become a humanitarian

eat humans.

[LiberalEsto]

4. Grow your own!

We may have to start replacing our lawns and growing grains on them. You can buy oat seed from this link:

http://www.johnnyseeds.com/catalog/product.aspx?category=289&subcategory=290&item=2869