“Companies still tend to evaluate sustainability investments over a time horizon of three to five years— and don’t look at the costs associated with pursuing business as usual,
I wonder if some food and agriculture companies see that they don't have more than 5 years to do experimental investing in hopes to get positive ROI. At the end of the day there can still be a lot of risk in investing into sustainability and some companies don't have the time or money to risk investing.
a large majority of these companies now recognize that their investments in sustainability are producing significant financial benefits,” says Ninio.
Going back to the article we read, "Central American Farmers Head to the U.S., Fleeing Climate Change," this could really change these small farms that are struggling financially with investing in sustainability to gain a positive ROI.
often focus solely on the costs of their sustainability investments without giving sufficient consideration to their financial benefits.
Hopefully with the emerging news of positive ROI coming from sustainability investments helps the food and agriculture industry start to look at the future financial benefits rather than focusing solely on the costs.
“This will probably be the start of what we will see, which is storms that impressively break records by pretty big margins,”
A lot of people talk about Cat. 6 hurricanes, and if we will ever have to come up with the new category because of the rapid intensification of past hurricane seasons, in quantity and strength of hurricanes. I am starting to wonder now if this day is coming sooner than later.
The reason: warm ocean waters.
I believe there is a lot more that caused hurricane Beryl to form into the earliest Cat. 5 in history than just warm ocean waters. Although the ocean waters have been constantly rising and this is certainly one of the driving factors, it is still a correlation and correlation does not mean causation. There were many potential Cat. 5 hurricanes that were very close to reaching the warm ocean waters of the Caribbean but were steered away due to the jet stream and the main factor, the Bermuda High, which is lower this year than normal leading to hurricanes staying in the warmer spawning waters. In conclusion there could have been many major hurricanes even ones that reached Cat. 5 if it was not for the jet stream and the Bermuda high steering them off into the cooler waters of the mid-Atlantic.
He owns 12 acres of land but can afford to farm only about five. He gets by with income from a tomato greenhouse he built with the cooperative’s help, and with remittances from two sons who migrated to the United States after struggling through the rust crisis of 2012-13.
Not only are farmers losing their jobs, farms, and way of life they have known for so long, but they are also losing their families to immigration because they can no longer afford to live there which is deeply saddening.
That has forced some farmers to search for land at higher altitudes, switch to other crops, change professions — or migrate.
Not only may farmers switch crops, but they very well might have the tendency to stop growing crops in all and swtich to something else, cattle. Cattle farming is not always a bad thing, but too much of it can be. While growing crops there are still plants to help regulate CO2, but with cows, there are very few trees left. Not to mention cows also release methane.
migrating to the United States: climate change.
Is the United States not having the same issues with farming and climate change as farms in Central and south America?
(Californians cannot purchase a home without having adequate home insurance to satisfy banks' home lender requirements.)
Something needs to change in the future. This is unfair that insurances are not insuring houses in california and there is still a law that requires adequate home insurances to be able to purchase. I bet this is a major reason that many people are leaving California with 58% of people moving in California leave the state.
And the future looks even worse.
With the mix of stronger storms from climate change and the influx of people moving to Florida and on the southern coast, more people properties are going to be in more danger than ever.
announced it too would stop selling new home insurance policies
This has always been a thought and worry of mine in the back of my mind. Living on the coast of SC and seeing major effects from hurricanes every season for the past few years I have grown worried that by the time I want to live in the low country, it will be simply too expensive for al insurances.
Extreme heat killed an estimated 489,000 people annually between 2000 and 2019, according to the World Meteorological Organization, making heat the deadliest of all extreme weather events.
Heat by itself might be the most deadliest extreme weather events but I think that extreme heat has a huge correlation on other extreme weather events such as thunder storms, tornadoes, and especially hurricanes. So I believe that extreme heat is responsible for much more damage and deaths than it is credited for.
“A transition away from fossil fuels is the best way to prevent deaths and illness from heat in the future — everything else is just a Band-Aid on a bullet wound,”
As I read more on fossil fuels, it is very apparent that fossil fuels is the main cause of climate change. UN.org says that fossil fuels is by far the largest contributor to climate change accounting for over 75% of of green house gas emissions and 90% of all carbon dioxide emissions.
The two countries are also the two biggest producers of greenhouse gases warming the planet. China’s current emissions are by far the highest in the world, and the United States’ cumulative emissions over the past 150 years of industrialization are the highest in the world.
Looking back on the article we read yesterday, on how heat exaggerates chemicals and gasses, this is really interesting and worrisome to think about that the two countries that produce the most greenhouse gasses are experiencing record breaking and extreme heats which is in turn exaggerating the affects.
And all along the ride, they logged elevated levels of ozone, the main ingredient of smog, as well as cancer-causing formaldehyde — both of which form readily in hot weather.
I think that the rise of heat can form and entail create the rise of chemicals, can definitely all be correlated together, although correlations does not always mean causation. I wonder if the heat, instead of forming these chemical more rapidly could be causing equipment to fail and engines to work harder resulting in exaggerated chemical spikes.
Local hot spots can sometimes be seen. For instance, on some blocks in Manhattan, formaldehyde levels were double the surrounding areas, possibly from particularly dirty combustion caused by faulty equipment nearby.
I would never had thought that so many chemical leaks could be caused by faulty equipment. In my mind chemical leaks and pollution were always just a product of industrialization. If faulty equipment is to blame for some of if not a lot of chemical leaks, equipment should be more closely monitored so that this doesn't happen very often.