Global warming’s threat to the food supply is seen as far more pressing by many scientists than the melting glaciers and rising sea levels that occasionally grab the headlines. 🧵
1. Increasingly extreme events exposing millions to acute food insecurity, particularly in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, on small islands and in the Arctic.
'considerably more evidence of projected risks..causing sudden food production losses..'carbonbrief.org/scientists-rea…
'considerably more evidence of projected risks..causing sudden food production losses..'carbonbrief.org/scientists-rea…
2.
Billions of people could suffer extraordinary misery and/or death if political/economic systems don't allow them to be protected as crop yields are reduced.
We're years away from shocking reductions.
Where are the system change headlines?
Billions of people could suffer extraordinary misery and/or death if political/economic systems don't allow them to be protected as crop yields are reduced.
We're years away from shocking reductions.
Where are the system change headlines?
https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1438183149553528834?s=20&t=-jEKx0gZ6dXqdNBLO7KZjg
3. Billions going hungry this century?
Well, already we've up to 55% of people on Earth struggling to feed themselves in a way which prevents malnutrition due to the horrific exploitation of poverty.
I still fear 2030 is the new 2100.
Thread to read:
Well, already we've up to 55% of people on Earth struggling to feed themselves in a way which prevents malnutrition due to the horrific exploitation of poverty.
I still fear 2030 is the new 2100.
Thread to read:
https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1341471256651182081?s=20&t=-jEKx0gZ6dXqdNBLO7KZjg
4. When hot, corn, rice & wheat produce less grain. Yields could drop 20-40%.
'Battisti now is convinced that global warming’s threat to the food supply is far more pressing than the melting glaciers and rising sea levels that grab most of the headlines.'seattletimes.com/seattle-news/u…
'Battisti now is convinced that global warming’s threat to the food supply is far more pressing than the melting glaciers and rising sea levels that grab most of the headlines.'seattletimes.com/seattle-news/u…
5.
Sea level rise is in fact connected to food issues:
Sea level rise is in fact connected to food issues:
https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1112458757626318850?s=20&t=-jEKx0gZ6dXqdNBLO7KZjg
6. Sir David King saying we must stop sea-level rise.
Disturbing:
"There will be no global economy like we know it today once rice production collapses like that."
From @NickGBreeze :
Disturbing:
"There will be no global economy like we know it today once rice production collapses like that."
From @NickGBreeze :
7. System change: possible and essential.
So, I say again, where are the headlines?
Who will strive for system change if nobody knows what happens on this horrific system as usual path?
Can state-corporate media journalists call for system change??
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So, I say again, where are the headlines?
Who will strive for system change if nobody knows what happens on this horrific system as usual path?
Can state-corporate media journalists call for system change??
⬇️
https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1363967493237309440?s=20&t=xSNhI0h_qBYj-2pOvSIhOw
8. 2006:
'Melting glaciers will reduce the amount of water available for agriculture in some areas of the world in the future, while rising sea levels will contaminate coastal groundwater supplies'
Glimpses of reality are key to corporate media illusions.ft.com/content/338cd4…
'Melting glaciers will reduce the amount of water available for agriculture in some areas of the world in the future, while rising sea levels will contaminate coastal groundwater supplies'
Glimpses of reality are key to corporate media illusions.ft.com/content/338cd4…
9. This is a climate-extinction crisis. Industrial agriculture is one of the biggest threats to food security. Pesticides, ecosystem destruction, soil damage,..
https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1500174266784006150?s=20&t=xSNhI0h_qBYj-2pOvSIhOw
10.
40% of invertebrate pollinators face extinction
40% of plant species face extinction
It's not just abrupt climate change.
The growth economy is taking us into mass extinction in many ways.
Where are the system change headlines?
Where?
Thread:
40% of invertebrate pollinators face extinction
40% of plant species face extinction
It's not just abrupt climate change.
The growth economy is taking us into mass extinction in many ways.
Where are the system change headlines?
Where?
Thread:
https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1437512143583301640?s=20&t=xSNhI0h_qBYj-2pOvSIhOw
12,
Extreme weather and pandemic help drive global food prices to 46-year high
Current high food prices, combined with the ongoing pandemic, will make the global food supply highly vulnerable to extreme weather shocks in 2022.yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/12/extrem…
Extreme weather and pandemic help drive global food prices to 46-year high
Current high food prices, combined with the ongoing pandemic, will make the global food supply highly vulnerable to extreme weather shocks in 2022.yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/12/extrem…
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