Thread: Impending Crisis: Earth to Run Out of Food by 2050?

Impending Crisis: Earth to Run Out of Food by 2050?

By TARA KELLY Tara Kelly – 2 hrs 44 mins ago

Is the earth running out of food? That's what scientists warned if the world leaders don't act now and negotiate food security policies at this week's
Climate Change talks in CancÚn, reports the New Zealand Herald.

In a new book, The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It, Professor Julian Cribb argues a catastrophic
global food shortage will hit by mid-century. His predictions paint a glum picture of the perfect storm that could threaten the lives of hundreds
of millions of people: Populations will grow to 9.2 billion by 2050 and in turn double today's global food requirement and outstrip growth in food output. Combined with unpredictable extreme weather patterns, droughts will haunt those most vulnerable and lead to crop failures, food riots and war. Food prices will inevitably spike with a rising demand for protein foods such as meat, milk, fish and eggs. Growing shortages of water and less productive land to yield crops will further hinder the world's future food production. (See the World's Top 10 Endangered Exports.)

"The world has ignored the ominous constellation of factors that now make feeding humanity sustainably our most pressing task - even in times of economic and climatic crisis," writes Professor Cribb. But Professor Cribb isn't the only scientist clamoring for politicians to take climate change seriously. In a recent study by the ARC Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, it warned of a potential mass extinction as the number of ocean dead zones - waters starved of oxygen - increase at an accelerating pace. The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research also put out a study that shows the increasing likelihood of frightening changes to rainfall, water supplies, weather systems, sea levels and crop harvests by the end of the century. (Read the World's Growing Food Price Crisis.)

With little chance world leaders from 193 countries gathering in CancÚn this week will come to any legal agreement, scientists like Cribb warn that the stakes are high, time is running out and it will be both rich and poor countries who will suffer from the long term impact of climate change leaving millions to go hungry by 2050.

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He's a journalist and book and propaganda seller. This book and the rethoric upped his demand for speeches and higher fees, I'm sure.Remember the Population Bomb by Paul Erlich. We were all supposed to have starved to death by 2000. By 2050, he will be dead and die a rich man.

Originally Posted by gofer

. . . He's a journalist and book and propaganda seller. This book and the rethoric upped his demand for speeches and higher fees, I'm sure. . .

Everyone has to do something to earn a living.