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Climate change can ruin our future?

 

As our climate continues to heat up and the impacts of that warming grow more frequent and severe, farmers and farm communities around the world will be increasingly challenged. And Santa Purican farmers won’t be spared the damage that climate change is already beginning to inflict.

 

The king’s opinion

The king has acknowledged climate change as an actual issue. He believes it is divine punishment for humanity for forsaking the traditional ways and focusing on technology and industry. Unfortunately, that means we get punished too. The king believes however that there is redemption for us and that our way of life will overcome these challenges. The queens fully support this statement and also say their hearts go out to the farmers who are facing this issue.

 

Floods 

Sea level rise is increasing the frequency and intensity of flooding on farms in coastal regions. These costly floods devastate crops and livestock, accelerate soil erosion, pollute water, and damage roads, bridges, schools, and other infrastructure.

 

Droughts

Too little water can be just as damaging as too much. Severe droughts have taken a heavy toll on crops, livestock, and farmers over the past decade—and the royal science department tells us that rising temperatures will likely make such droughts even worse, depleting water supplies and, in some cases, spurring destructive wildfires. Just think about the great Paragon Fields fire in 2017, that destroyed over 20 square kilometres of produce.

Technological absence

Other countries can rely on their technology to increase their output. We are not as technologically advanced as others, because of our humble lifestyle, so we have to endure the negative effects more.

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Priority

The king and royal council have immediately stated the public as their priority. People who get affected by climate change and have a bad harvest will get recompensated and be cared for. To do this, there will be an extra tax for a fund that works as a safety net for those people. The fund will be called the prince Charlie fund, named after our own young prince Charlie. Our great king himself has generously donated a large chunk of his treasure as a base for the fund.

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Other solutions

The royal science department is looking for means to help the farmers survive this growing crisis by looking for scientific solutions. One of these even implies using small technological techniques from other countries to help increase our output. The more promising solution, however, comes from the brilliant professor Clarence Baker, who, after years of scientific research, believes to have developed a way to terraform our own soil. He has found a way to transform hard, unfertile soil into fertile soil by using a machine that he calls the “cloud enhancer”. This machine gets attached to a plane and, once above the clouds, sprays a chemical solution on the clouds that cleans the clouds and increases their rain-quality and production. The project is still in development and is said to be perfected in three years.

Have questions?

Do you think you qualify for insurance from the Prince Charlie fund? Contact us through the national agricultural helpline 054 73 08 56.