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Environment & Energy

KurtNYC

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1. They should factor in starvation from crop failures

Reply to wtmusic (Original post)

Mon May 20, 2013, 06:16 AM

May 2013

extended droughts, increased transportation costs for food, increased spoilage due to heat in transport and storage, the long-term destruction of farmland due to industrial waste, fracking, sprawl and economic forces, hail storm damage to crops, abnormal heat and freezing that doom a crop production. It would dwarf the heat wave stuff.

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They should factor in starvation from crop failures KurtNYC May 2013 #1