Global climate change

· NASA: Global climate change”

https://climate.nasa.gov/Links to an external site.

· “What should you say to a climate change skeptic?”

https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-climate-change-arguments-20170818-htmlstory.htmlLinks to an external site.

· “Meet the evangelical Christian persuading believers that climate change is real”

https://www.newstatesman.com/2017/06/meet-evangelical-christian-persuading-believers-climate-change-realLinks to an external site.

· “Rash of suicides in India—Cotton farmers without hope” (video, 6:10 minutes)

https://www.dw.com/en/rash-of-suicides-in-india-cotton-farmers-without-hope/av-17200458Links to an external site.

· “Australia: Suicides among farmers” (video, 6:45 minutes)

https://www.dw.com/en/australia-suicide-among-farmers/av-47117757Links to an external site.

· “Trading down: How unfair trade hurts farmers [in poor countries]”

https://fairworldproject.org/trading-down-how-unfair-trade-hurts-farmers/Links to an external site.

· “Agribusiness is devastating to family farmers, rural communities, and the environment”

https://www.actionaidusa.org/work/agribusiness-family-farmers/Links to an external site.    

· “Biodiversity: Food ‘key driver’ of accelerating death of wildlife”

https://www.dw.com/en/farming-food-biodiversity-extinction-food-waste-health-meat-plant-based/a-56416006Links to an external site.

· “The sugar that permeates the American diet has a barbaric history as the ‘white gold’ that fueled slavery”

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/sugar-slave-trade-slavery.htmlLinks to an external site.

· GPCC, chapter 7, “Environment and consumption”

 

Discussion post #11

· What are the key indicators of global climate change, according to NASA? And what evidence should be pointed out to climate skeptics?

· How does global climate change reflect “negative externalities” and “Karl Polanyi’s Paradox” ( as defined in GPCC)?

· How do food exports from wealthy countries to poor countries hurt medium and small farmers in poor countries? What problems in general does corporate agribusiness cause? What are the present-day causes of suicide among family farmers?

· What problems does “farming and biodiversity” address? What are its recommendations? How are these related to the “clean farming revolution” (sustainable farming/agroecology, as discussed last week)?

· Describe either “the case of sugar” or “the story of beef” (in GPCC).