Sen. Booker: ‘Tremendous Suffering’ in Afghanistan Is ‘Going To Be Exacerbated by Climate Change’
‘We can literally see issues of starvation hitting the general population’
Sep 14, 2021 5:00 PM
By Grabien Staff
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BOOKER: “As 'The New York Times' reported, World Food Programme is estimating about 40 percent of Afghan crops are going to be lost. There‘s going to be tremendous hunger at the price of wheat expected to go up 25 percent. The World Food Programme's own food stock is expected to run out by September. And so this is tremendous suffering that will come. It's going to be exacerbated by climate change. We can literally see issues of starvation hitting the general population.”
