And so it begins. wsj.com/articles/sever…
“Smallest citrus crop in a century” washingtonpost.com/business/2023/…
Mississippi: “After a June 14 severe thunderstorm dropped some of the state’s largest recorded hail on Noxubee County, row-crop farmland there suffered up to 50% yield loss.” extension.msstate.edu/news/feature-s…
“They are dying essentially. It’s something that we’ve never experienced before. We’ve had dry conditions later in the season but to have it at the end of May, beginning of June like this is unprecedented.” globalnews.ca/news/9761043/d…
“The lack of water has significantly affected vegetation and crops in the middle of the growing season, leading to delayed sowing and low yield forecasts.” joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and-u…
Crops in drought:
“57% of the U.S. corn crop
51% of soybeans
64% of sorghum
50% of winter wheat
Those numbers are up from last week, when 45% of corn and 39% of soybeans were covered in drought.” agweb.com/news/crops/cro…
Central Pennsylvania: “Crops are looking stressed out there and we are at this point concerned about farmers losing yields in their crops.” fox43.com/article/news/l…
“Standing in his field of stunted, withered maize, Santi Caudevilla is very worried. ‘If the weather does not change it will be zero. Nothing is going to be harvested.” cnn.com/2023/05/02/eur…
“An unusually dry May in the Midwest has raised concerns over this year's corn crop in the Corn Belt, the region stretching from the panhandle of Texas up to North Dakota and east to Ohio which dominates the country's corn production.” newsweek.com/corn-prices-so…
“He predicted that ‘there’s going to be very little harvested come this fall, if any.’” h/t @heatherwritesss klkntv.com/some-nebraska-…
@heatherwritesss “Georgia is known as the ‘Peach State’ for its normally abundant crops, producing more than 130 million pounds of the fruit every year.
But this year, about 90% of the state's crop has been lost...” h/t @BlueWest18 cbsnews.com/news/georgias-…
The future is now.
“Farmers in B.C. are dealing with challenges amid the worst wildfire season in recent years, causing them to brace for potential crop loss.” vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/06/28/bc-…
There are so many crop losses in so many states and countries, I can’t keep up. 5newsonline.com/article/news/c…
“The U.S. Department of Agriculture now rates only half of the U.S. corn crop as good or excellent — the lowest percentage since 1988. Nearly two-thirds of the nation’s corn-growing areas are in drought.” apnews.com/article/drough…
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Media is cleverly describing this as a “weird” fluke instead of the new normal. We won’t be hearing about the imminent threats to our survival, as they distract us from working & consuming. It’s going to get very ugly, very fast. Prepare accordingly. stateline.org/2023/06/23/dro…
BIG THREAD.
The hits keep coming.
Kansas
Soooo, now that global food prices have hit record highs, and the US just ended food assistance for millions, what is the plan to feed people amid catastrophic food and water shortages? What’s that? The plan is to kill folks with mass disease before they starve to death? Oh, ok.
“Consumers, farmers and even McDonald’s struggle in shortage blamed on irregular weather.” theguardian.com/world/2023/jul…
“About 26.5 million Americans reported sometimes or often not having enough to eat between June 7 and June 19, according to the Census's latest Household Pulse Survey - up 4.4% from last month's survey and 12% from June 2022.” reuters.com/world/us/us-hu…
“Corporations & oligarchs with massive fortunes can hire as many junktanks (so-called thinktanks), troll farms, marketing gurus, psychologists & micro-targeters as they need to devise justifications & to demonise, demoralise, abuse & threaten people trying to sustain a habitable planet.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Wow, seems like a problem that isn’t going to go away. whas11.com/video/news/loc…
Just. Keep. Consuming.
But if we can persuade the masses FEAR & KNOWLEDGE are the problems, then the logical solution is preserving the status quo, & the record profits can continue while we collectively march to our mass premature deaths. Everyone wins! 🥰
BREAKING: The news, & our collective survival:
“Successive heatwaves threaten nature’s ability to provide us with food, say researchers, as they warn of an ‘unseen, silent dying’ in our oceans amid record temperatures scorching the Earth.” theguardian.com/environment/20…
“The government said it was imposing a ban on non-basmati white rice after retail rice prices climbed 3% in a month after late but heavy monsoon rains caused significant damage to crops.
India accounts for more than 40% of world rice exports.” reuters.com/markets/commod…
::Heavy sigh:: We aren’t ready.
Seems bad. thegrocer.co.uk/sourcing/cerea…
All around the world, same song.
“The country has experienced ‘absolute extremes in terms of both drought & the amount of water that we've had,’ Serbian farmer Dejan Ivanišević says.
‘Believe me, I absolutely do not understand what is happening.’” euronews.com/2023/07/17/cli…
Massachusetts: “Record-low temperatures in February destroyed the peaches. In May, the cold weather damaged the apple crops.” wcvb.com/article/record…
Who could have predicted? ksat.com/weather/2023/0…
Crop diseases are the real nightmare, & few think about them.
“Flooding ‘may exacerbate the prevalence’ of diseases that affect corn, rice and soybeans. reuters.com/world/china/ch…
2021: “Climate change may pose an increased risk for crops to become infected with pests and pathogens, leaving the yields inedible and risking quantities of the world's food supply.” abcnews.go.com/US/climate-cha…
Seems bad.
“When temperatures get too hot (above 27.8C, or about 82F), wheat photosynthesizes more slowly, and when it gets very hot (above 32.8C, or about 91F) enzymes in the plant can start to break down.” theguardian.com/environment/20…
Everyone is asleep, blissfully unaware of what’s coming.
*At precisely the same time food shortages will be kicking off in earnest. Great.
“The world’s largest producer has said it is having to import supplies from South America to keep up with demand.
‘Today it is almost physically impossible to buy olive oil. It is sold out.’” amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep…
Hello? (hello, hello, hello)
Is there anybody out there?
“‘We don't understand the full picture,’ said Matthew Travis, the USDA's point man on the crisis. ‘It's very challenging for us.’” phys.org/news/2023-10-i…
North Carolina: “It's been so dry. We've had half an inch of rain this month. A half an inch. We were supposed to have more than three. These plants are so stressed -- and now the cold.” wcnc.com/article/news/l…
Who could have predicted…
“A new report finds the federal government is spending billions on crop failures caused by extreme weather — and it’s growing only more expensive.” thegazette.com/agriculture/re…
We aren’t ready. The public has no idea what’s coming because media narratives are carefully managed, and governments have decided Keeping Up Appearances is more profitable than warning the public & planning for climate collapse.
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