{"id":6737,"date":"2011-08-08T13:08:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T17:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=6737"},"modified":"2011-08-08T13:08:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T17:08:40","slug":"climate-change-famine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=6737","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change & Famine"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Guardian blog called “Poverty Matters” carries a headline<\/a> that I find obscene:<\/p>\n

Is Climate Change to blame for the famine in the Horn of Africa?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I might have taken a charitable view towards this provocative headline if the actual post included discussion of Somalia, where the famine is hitting hardest. \u00a0You probably have seen the wrenching\u00a0pictures<\/a> and stories<\/a> coming out of Somalia the last few weeks. This humanitarian tragedy<\/a>\u00a0is not in any way attributable to global warming. It should not be considered as a rhetorical question, especially at a blog devoted to development and poverty issues. On this note, I share Edward Carr’s<\/a>\u00a0quiet outrage:<\/p>\n

Order Zopiclone Online After reading a lot of news and blog posts on the situation in the Horn of Africa, I feel the need to make something clear: the drought in the Horn of Africa is not the cause of the famine we are seeing take shape in southern Somalia. \u00a0We are being pounded by a narrative of this famine that more or less points to the failure of seasonal rains as its cause . . . which I see as a horrible abdication of responsibility for the human causes of this tragedy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://dentalprovidence.com/about/ Andy Revkin echoes this sentiment here<\/a>, and in a follow-up post<\/a>, he explores a relevant climate change angle that one hopes will be taken up in climate modeling circles.<\/p>\n

But let’s go back to Carr (more information on him here<\/a>), who asserts<\/a> that what’s happening in Somalia is<\/p>\n

a human crisis first and foremost, whatever you think of anthropogenic climate change…We can’t blame this famine on the weather “\u201c we need to be looking at everything from local and national politics that shape access and entitlements to food to global food markets that have driven the price of needed staples up across the world, thus curtailing access for the poorest. \u00a0The bad news: Humans caused this. \u00a0The good news: If we caused it, we can prevent the next one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Order Tramadol Overnight In the case of Somalia, however, the situation is a great deal more complicated, as Bronwyn Bruton explains\u00a0in this influential Foreign Affairs\u00a0essay<\/a>, and in this Q & A<\/a>.<\/p>\n

https://disneycruisinggroup.com/transportation/ Meanwhile, no western journalist has a better feel for Somalia than Jeffrey Gettleman<\/a>, an Africa correspondent for the NYT, who, two years ago, wrote<\/a>\u00a0in Foreign Policy:<\/p>\n

https://castlehomecomfort.com/plumbing-repair/ This dysfunctional, poverty-stricken, war-ravaged country has cast a spell over me. It’s one of the most exotic, authentic, sealed-off places in the world. Its isolation isn’t surprising because the place is dangerous as hell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://worklivelaos.com/1city/ Anyone who wants to invoke climate change as a contributing factor to Somalia’s latest tragedy should spend 48 hours having tea with the warlords and Islamic extremists that currently rule much of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Guardian blog called “Poverty Matters” carries a headline that I find obscene: Is Climate Change to blame for the famine in the Horn of Africa? I might have taken a charitable view towards this provocative headline if the actual post included discussion of Somalia, where the famine is hitting hardest. \u00a0You probably have seen… Purchase Xanax Online Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2675],"tags":[835,1040,1626],"class_list":["post-6737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-famine","tag-climate-change","tag-famine","tag-somalia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}