Faith, Hope...

because there are varieties of rice that could grow in saline and brackish environments, even without irrigation. At the edges of coastal land, there are varieties of upland rice that could also grow, also without irrigation.

As it is already happening now, many areas within and beyond the municipal waters are either too dirty or too warm for fish to grow. Either that or it has already become too dangerous to go fishing in those areas, because of disaster risks and climate changes.

The obvious solution to this problem is to shift to inland fisheries, not necessarily in

natural inland waters, but in fish tanks and fish pens that are above the ground, either using recycled drums or recycled tarpaulins with wooden, bamboo or steel frames. For those who may be skeptical about this idea, I might as well tell you that this is already a tried and tested approach, and as a matter of fact, it is sometimes called “urban fisheries”./