According to new research, the global output of rubber is going to drop in the next few months with the most likely cause being climate change. Apparently, India is one of the largest rubber-producing countries in the world and the former president of one of their major companies thought that the reason of lower output was because of a shortage in qualified workers to get the rubber out of the trees and not climate change. Along with climate change being the reason for this occurrence, some of the other leading producers of rubber, such as Thailand and Indonesia, are not able to produce as much rubber as usual because of weather conditions that hit them the first week of November.This article does not surprise me. With all of the other natural resource shortages going on around the world, this one is no different. I just wish that there was a simple sollutoin to this problem, but there is not. Only is multiple things change will a dramatic change occur. If more people would recycle, use less resources, be more energy dependent, and things of that nature, then maybe so many things would not be happening with the climate and possible, resolving this issue.
Kaycey Cook
12-4-09
2:50 am
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2009/12/04/stories/2009120452601600.htm
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