Paris Agreement Climate Change Moonbattery Will Increase World Hunger

A price has to be paid for climate change moonbattery. It is not the global liberal elite who will pay it. The burden will fall largely on the poor, whom the sort of progressives who push the global warming hoax noisily pretend to champion:

The UN’s Paris Agreement is currently the most comprehensive global effort to limit climate change. But some of the land-use measures that would help meet the agreement’s objectives could slow the decline of global hunger. …

“People who are involved in climate change research, its policy making, and international negotiation are mainly considering climate change, but more attention should be paid to the unintended consequences of climate change mitigation,” says Shinichiro Fujimori of Kyoto University, Japan.

Climate change policy has virtually no chance of effecting a perceptible change in the weather. But the unintended consequences will be plenty perceptible.

Signed in 2015, the Paris Agreement aims to limit the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels. Some of the most important measures that could help meet this goal relate to land use, including re-planting trees in areas recently cleared, and increasing biofuels production.

These supposedly noble gestures would be carried out using land that otherwise would be used to grow food, which people need much more than they need climate change posturing.

What’s more, naïve mitigation policies such as simply pricing greenhouse gas emissions could increase the cost of agricultural commodities…

That puts food even further out of reach for poor countries.

No worries; Fujimori et al have a solution: redistribute still more taxpayer money to the Third World. The global elite will love the idea.

On a tip from Lyle.

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