Around £8bn-worth of food including bananas, rice and tea is imported to the UK from countries that are ill-prepared for increasingly extreme weather events they face from climate change, according to the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU).
An analysis of government trade data published today by the think tank reveals £2bn-worth of food comes to the UK from just eight developing countries – Kenya, Brazil, Peru, Vietnam, India, Colombia, Belize, and Ivory Coast – all of which are among the most vulnerable to the worsening impacts of climate change.
It’s ok. When the weather gets hotter and all the lowlands flood we will be able to produce those ourselves.
It’s scary how little of our own food we produce now.
25 to 30 years tops. I’d say that’s all we’ve got (but obviously I know absolutely nothing on the subject of any real value).
Our own food production is threatened by the same, however people do not want to admit that and still think the risks of climate change are overblown, or that climate change will not affect them for decades. You only have to look at how the climate and weather have changed over the last few years to realise how different the UK is to how it was a decade or more ago.
This shouldn’t be a surprise at all. Just see the trend of the past 5 years…
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Around £8bn-worth of food including bananas, rice and tea is imported to the UK from countries that are ill-prepared for increasingly extreme weather events they face from climate change, according to the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU).
An analysis of government trade data published today by the think tank reveals £2bn-worth of food comes to the UK from just eight developing countries – Kenya, Brazil, Peru, Vietnam, India, Colombia, Belize, and Ivory Coast – all of which are among the most vulnerable to the worsening impacts of climate change.
It’s ok. When the weather gets hotter and all the lowlands flood we will be able to produce those ourselves.
It’s scary how little of our own food we produce now.
25 to 30 years tops. I’d say that’s all we’ve got (but obviously I know absolutely nothing on the subject of any real value).
Our own food production is threatened by the same, however people do not want to admit that and still think the risks of climate change are overblown, or that climate change will not affect them for decades. You only have to look at how the climate and weather have changed over the last few years to realise how different the UK is to how it was a decade or more ago.
This shouldn’t be a surprise at all. Just see the trend of the past 5 years…