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  • Mrtryfe [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    IIRC China's food security is contentious with global warming, since their arable land also gets encroached on by expanding desert.

    Global warming specifically targeting China. Nature is inherently Sinophobic? We're in shambles

    • triangle [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      It is actually a concern, rice can be double cropped (you can get two harvests a year) but due to changes in the climate arable area where double cropping can happen is shrinking. Like, China is aware of this unlike most western leaders and your average chud apparently.

      China is actually doing something about this though, the 13th 5 Year Plan included a bunch of provisions for basic research and especially research in agriculture. I can't think of what the west is doing because planning isn't centralized/in public control... I guess Monsanto or some big businesses have something approaching a plan. I heard a bunch of ag companies are trying to get more northerly latitudes in Alberta and Saskatchewan (Canada) to start planting corn because of a combination of a potentially longer growing season and some GMO corn that doesn't need as long to grow. But I can't think of anything they're doing to try and handle the, now yearly, extremely wet spring that prevents planting and the wet/snow fall that prevent harvesting.