My family and I enjoy eating apples. However, the climate crisis is threatening the production of this fruit.
According to the Rural Development Administration, if the level of our fossil fuel use is high like it is now, without strong reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, regions that can produce apples in Korea will continue to decrease drastically. Indeed, by the 2070s, only certain areas of Gangwon Province will be able to grow them.
Apples grow well at relatively cool temperatures. If Korea’s annual average temperature increases because of climate change, the country will become unable to cultivate the fruit by the 2090s.
Professor Oh Chung-hyeon of the Department of Biological and Environmental Science at Dongguk University, says that Daegu produced........