Climate Change and Health, Wellbeing and Food Security
How has climate change impacted your communities’ health and well being? What is the impact of climate change on the ability to produce food? What steps are needed by governments to protect and promote the ability to produce food?
So what do you think? Post your ideas here.
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Well, if we think of it economically, cheap imports from other companies make it harder for local industries, so protectionism might be good. But the W.T.O prevents that. So what i think i would do is to invest in the industries and make them just as competitive.
Also, green houses would be great. Otherwise, we could invest in something else and rely on imports for others. But we dont really have that many problems, not that i know of, not really.
A huge example of climate change impacting food security is in the sub-arctic and arctic.
Isolated communities rely on "country food" or "traditional food" to supply a reliable, healthy, and affordable source of nutrition.
The other options involves shipping food from the south- foods that are often less healthy, culturally unfamiliar, and a huge cost to purchase and fly to the community.
There are very good programs to help Northern communities continue to access food on the land and assist hunters. Usually, one hunter can feed several families (inlcuding elders and single parents who can no longer hunt for themselves).
What role do Canadians have in ensuring that northern indigenous communities 1) have access to healthy and traditional foods, and 2) continue to hunt for traditional country foods?
In Georgia, usa, there has been alot of colder weather than normal. This has limited tropical food supply, like oranges and grapefruits from Georgia and Florida. This has affected not only the amount of food available, but also the economy because the cost of citrus is rising due to the low amount produced.
people don't realize that when we use the term global warming, it also means climate change in general and it does cause things like colder/longer winters in areas where they don't usually occur. When they see this, they think - see there is no such thing as global warming.- This isn't true. There is global warming. some of it is natural, but it is being extremely escalated by all the things humans have done to modernize the world.
Abdallah Abu-Saris
May 2, 2010 at 12:04 AM