Climate change activists: your focus on food insecurity is backfiring

Jonah
Sachs: Alarming predictions will likely just grow our current system of food production,
exacerbating its environmental problems. The message should be that
our industrial food system is driving climate change

Source: www.theguardian.com

No matter how dire the facts, people still don’t seem to care enough about climate change to drive political action. If we want to make them care, we need to connect climate change to human impacts. Here’s a human impact: Climate change threatens food production. So we’ll get people to care by explaining that climate change may mean a future in which we won’t be able to produce enough food.

About Dr. Bukar USMAN, mni

I started as a field Veterinary officer with Borno State Ministry of Agriculture and later joined College of Agric, Maiduguri as a lecture & a Researcher in the Department of Animal Health & Production. I was appointed the Provost of the College In 2003. In 2007 I was appointed Hon. Commissioner & Member Borno State Executive Council and later appointed Permanent Secretary with the Borno State Civil Service in 2009. I was the National Facilitator Animal Health, National Programme For Food Security of the Federal Ministry of Agric & Rural Development, Abuja. I was Director, Veterinary Medicine & Allied Products (VMAP) and now Director North East Zone NAFDAC. I’m a member of the National Institute’ (mni), Kuru SEC 40, 2018. I engaged myself in various aspects of the veterinary profession. I founded Sril Group Ltd, Nigeria.
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