The real cause for Japan to fall into

Japan is falling into the "Greatest potato chips crisis" ever. The brands that produce and distribute "bim bim" here are forced to make a cut announcement, even to stop offering the nation's most popular range of products.

This crisis stems from storms hitting Hokkaido in August 2016. The catastrophe caused the fields responsible for providing up to 70% - 80% of Japan's total sweet potato production to sink in the sea, causing a serious shortage of agricultural supplies.

When chips are also "out of stock" in Japan.

Potato chips manufacturers had to do everything, including the import of potatoes from the United States. But the majority of potatoes in the US are not eligible for Japanese snacks. As a result, the Japanese potato storage depleted gradually, so that people had to line up "sweeping" each package of chips in the supermarket.

What is the cause of this crisis? Do the storms? Because Japan only focuses on producing potatoes in one region? Or is it because the Japanese potato import standard is too high?

In fact, the cause comes from a factor we mentioned too many times. That is climate change.

The storms in Asia are getting stronger

According to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), the storms in August and September 2016 caused Japan's potato production to drop by 500,000 tons, and greatly affected the supply of potatoes in the future. , with more than 24,000 hectares of cultivated land severely damaged by heavy rain.

Heavy flooding caused by Lionrock storm.

Overall, reports show that the density of storms occurring in Asia has increased by 12% over the past four decades.

In particular, there are record storms with a record intensity like Haiyan - a hurricane that kills more than 6,000 people in the Philippines in 2013.

Haiyan storm killed 6,000 people in the Philippines.

Lionrock stormed into Japan in August 2016 as well. Despite being warned, as many as 17 people died because of it, along with a series of roads, cultivated land was seriously flooded by it.

What are the causes?

According to Wei Mei - a meteorologist from the University of North Carolina (USA), the increased intensity and density of storms are related to the phenomenon of warming seawater in coastal waters.

Reports show that the sea temperature in these areas has increased by about 0.8 degrees Celsius since 1970, and this phenomenon is like " rechargeable batteries" , providing additional energy to storms when landing. inland.

In other words, the reason is because of climate change. And what has accelerated the process of climate change? It is from human actions, mainly due to the use of fossil fuels .

The storms in Asia are getting stronger.

In fact, Mei has not made any conclusions about the connection between natural disasters and people. But he warned that if the Earth continues to heat up at the current rate, the storms will get stronger and thicker. It will be a tragedy with locations in the Northern North latitude area, including East China, Taiwan, Korea, Korea and Japan.

The consequences of storms are probably more likely. There will be dead, injured people, thousands of people homeless. Cultivated land is severely eroded, causing hunger, continuing disease . Even many sports - including football, can disappear.

And you see it too! At that time, the potato chips did not have it, just like what the Japanese people were going through in recent days.