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A global breadbasket catastrophe by 2029 looks increasingly likely.

Extreme heat waves and droughts will bring a major threat to global food security.

phys.org/news/2019-12-c…
Food and water shocks are set to be sudden, not gradual.

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What on Earth has brought us to the brink of global famine?

1.5C could be enough to trigger simultaneousccrop failures.
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The Tropics:

1. now a source of CO₂
2. ecosystem damage already huge
3. insects are vanishing
4. wildlife populations plummeting
5. forests at tipping point
6. marine life faces annihilation
7. most species face extinction
8. extreme heat soon to hit 4 billion

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Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from tropical northern Africa much larger than previously thought, according to study using satellite observations in Nature Communications.

Results turn tropics as a whole into unexpected net source of this greenhouse gas.
natureasia.com/en/research/hi…
The first high-level report on the state of all four of the world´s most diverse tropical ecosystems—tropical forests, savannas, lakes and rivers, and coral reefs:

'conclusions are bleak'.

'global biodiversity collapse is imminent' without urgent action.
m.phys.org/news/2018-07-t…
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The News

1. Corals are preparing for The End
2. Rainforests can't suck up CO2
3. Beetles & mammals are vanishing
4. Ocean heat is worse than thought
5. Europe, Russia just had no winter
6. Spring now starts in February
7. Primates (like us) face extinction

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'compelling evidence that another mass extinction is underway'

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'The world's tropical forests are rapidly losing their ability to absorb carbon dioxide from greenhouse gas emissions'

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The News:

1. major pandemic threat
2. water scarcity for 4 billion people
3. old Arctic sea ice 95% gone
4. forest wildlife dying
5. food injustice crisis
6. flooded megacities
7. coral doomed
8. record heat
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This is 2020.
'at least one pandemic will emerge over the next 100 years, with a 20 percent chance of seeing four or more'

From Jan 2016.

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4 billion people live under conditions of severe water scarcity at least one month of the year.

1.8 - 2.9 billion people face severe water scarcity for at least 4 to 6 months.

Half a billion people in the world face severe water scarcity all year round.advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/2/e1…
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