The price of rice is rising

Food crises are an enormous threat to stability. Now, Asian rice exporting nations are reducing the amounts of rice exported. For me, that just means a relatively incremental increase in the price of rice, maybe enough that I’ll finally switch to locally produced spelt as my grain to soak up sauces and fill stuffed peppers. But rice is a staple for people throughout the world, and although people in the country can find a way to subsist, what will the poor who live in cities do? What can we do?

I’m not an economist and I don’t know how these things work, but perhaps if those of us who have a choice switched from rice to a locally produced grain the pressure would, in the aggregate, be relieved. Or, at the very least, we could be grateful for every grain of rice we eat and re-use last night’s leftover rice instead of just tossing it out.

Don’t forget to shut your lights for an hour tonight. Read in the paper this morning that even the King of Sweden will be turning off the lights in the palace.

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