To: combjelly who wrote (895245 ) 10/20/2015 7:49:22 PM From: Tenchusatsu Read Replies (1) | Respond to CJ, Not even vaguely true. When the US has a major crop failure, like the corn crop in 2012, the global price of that commodity goes up. When Russia and then Australia had wheat crop failures, the global price of wheat went up. Not a problem in developed countries where food costs are like 5% of income, but if you are spending 80% or more of your income on food, like in much of the world, it is a different story. Maybe the fact that they have to spend 80% of their income on food is the bigger issue here, not the fact that the prices of these crops went up in accordance to supply and demand.Those conditions exist. Probably isn't going to change any time soon. So you'd rather pretend you can change their circumstances by stopping climate change than by bringing democracy and modernization to these third world nations?With the possible exception of rice, crop failures in grain crops of the major food exporters ripples throughout the global market and that has the most impact in the poorer countries. Let me put it this way. If you're so concerned about maintaining the supply of crops and keeping global prices steady, you would support other measures like GMOs, lowered trade barriers, and infrastructure assistance that can both produce more food and ease the transportation thereof.
