{"id":14640,"date":"2011-01-10T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=14640"},"modified":"2011-01-10T07:00:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T15:00:31","slug":"rising-record-food-prices-food-riots-due-to-extreme-weather-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/rising-record-food-prices-food-riots-due-to-extreme-weather-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising &amp; Record Food Prices, Food Riots Due to Extreme Weather Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g093lhtpEFo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I included the video above in last week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/2011\/01\/07\/global-weirding-news-of-the-week-3\/\">global weirding news roundup<\/a>, in addition to Joe Romm&#8217;s recent article on how <a href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2011\/01\/06\/extreme-weather-events-helps-drive-food-prices-to-record-highs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">extreme weather events are contributing to rising, record food prices<\/a>. But both are worth another quick look on their own.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/extreme-weather-rising-food-prices.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14641\" title=\"extreme weather rising food prices\" src=\"http:\/\/planetsave.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/extreme-weather-rising-food-prices.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2009, Lester Brown and\u00a0<em>Scientific American<\/em> asked\u00a0<a title=\"Permanent Link to Ponzi redux:  Scientific American asks \u201cCould Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?\u201d\" rel=\"bookmark noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2009\/05\/01\/lester-brown-scientific-american-food-shortages-there-is-no-bo\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cCould Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?\u201d<\/a> This summer\u2019s extreme global weather raised fears of a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/08\/27\/the-coming-food-crisis-global-warming-podest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coming Food Crisis,<\/a>\u201d as CAP\u2019s John D. Podesta and Jake Caldwell warned in\u00a0<em>Foreign Policy<\/em>:\u00a0 \u201cGlobal food security is stretched to the breaking point, and Russia\u2019s fires and Pakistan\u2019s floods are making a bad situation worse.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The bottom line is, extreme weather, which is expected to increase considerably in the years to come from climate change if we don&#8217;t act to stop this process quickly, is not just about the birds and the bees suffering. It is about the food shortages and societal chaos that are expected to result from those things as well.<\/p>\n<p>Think food is expensive now? Think switching to a clean energy economy and cleaner transportation options is costly or challenging? Think again&#8230; our challenges could be much worse.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s more on the rising food prices from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=extreme-weather-helps-drive-food\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Climatewire via Scientific American<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last month\u2019s average food price index came in at 215, whereas the peak in 2008 was 213.5. In December 2009, the figure was only 172.<\/p>\n<p>The recent high is the culmination of a steady increase in prices over the past six months. It marks the highest food price index since food price figures were first recorded 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>FAO attributes the upswing in prices to factors including the crop failures caused by a string of extreme\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/topic.cfm?id=weather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weather<\/a> events and high crop demands from an ever-increased global population. 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