Last year it was wheat, then sugar. This year, it is tomatoes.
As weather patterns grow erratic — rainfalls too heavy and often out of sync with farming calendars, and heat cycles beginning earlier and breaking records — food shortages are one of the many ways India is reeling from climate change.
Supplies have been shrinking, and prices shooting up — in the case of tomatoes, at least a fivefold increase between May and mid-July according to official figures, and even a steeper spike based on consumer accounts. The government has been forced to take emergency measures, curbing exports and injecting subsidized supplies to the market to reduce the shock on the world’s most populous nation.
Yeah every so often I see someone suggest bicycling is not so good for the environment because it takes the total calories burned without subtracting the calories burned by someone just existing for the same time period. If we could produce a lot of power ourselves then losing weight would be super easy.
That’s a weird argument, since cycling is the most efficient mode of transport. Even ignoring all the health improvements/lower emissions/etc., it still easily outpaces everything else in terms of environmental benefits due to its efficiency. It’s just not a good way to heat your home.
yeah no idea why but it pops up every so often for me in places like this. Again its due to someone using total energy consumed by the human during cycling without minusing energy consumed if not bicycling. Which is a pretty big difference because we burn like 2k calories just existing each day but if you ever got on one of those excersise cycles that track how many calories you have burned you will find out how taxing it is just for every 100 calories and I can bike places without it being taxing at all.