• Question: What are you going to do about all of the different climates

    Asked by anon-218391 to Shannah, Richard, Matthew (known as Kaan by, johnpaterson, Emma, Anna on 17 Jun 2019.
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      Emma Markham answered on 17 Jun 2019:


      I’m not sure what you mean. Do you mean what are we going to do about climate change?
      I think it is important that we invest in sustainable agriculture, to ensure we have food which can cope with a changing climate and hopefully help remove carbon from the atmosphere. Plants are evolved to live in a specific habitat and within specific temperature and rainfall conditions, climate change is making the weather more extreme, with longer hotter and drier summers, meaning plants become heat stressed and have less yield and need much more water otherwise they will die. We need to change the way we farm and the foods we eat to ensure we have a sustainable food supply.

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