Madam Chair, I totally agree that the climate crisis and the food crisis are connected, but not in the way that I think my friend believes.
The more we ignore the urgency of the climate crisis and the more we perpetuate some role in our future for the use of fossil fuels, the more we exacerbate a growing climate crisis that drives increasing drought. It means that the U.S. prairies and Canadian prairies will face drought. South Saharan Africa will face drought. This drives more food insecurity and drives more geopolitical instability, which drives more migration.
We have to find solutions that work for all the crises we face and drive for solutions that work for them all at once. We cannot pick one over the other.