Trump's war is putting massive new pressures on American farmers from rising fertilizer prices and shrinking markets, but #climate change and severe #drought in the US breadbasket is making the problem even worse

[petergleick@fediscience.org]

Trump's war is putting massive new pressures on American farmers from rising fertilizer prices and shrinking markets, but #climate change and severe #drought in the US breadbasket is making the problem even worse.
Here's the latest US drought monitor report.

[joeinwynnewood@mstdn.social]

@petergleick

It's as if the Trump regime wanted to make more people go hungry, attacking farmers from every angle, stealing their workforce, making climate disruption worse by stopping the installation of renewables & forcing coal plants to stay open, and dramatically increasing the cost of petrol and fertilizer.

[aguleb@masto.ai]

@petergleick Add El Nino and high cost of fertilizers and the world is in for some interesting years.

[sandorspruit@mastodon.nl]

@aguleb @petergleick I invested in an organic local farm, years ago. It seemed a crazy idea at the time: circular, self-contained, sustainable, idealistic, waste of money, bound to fail and all that. I increasingly feel it may not have been such a bad idea after all