At the same time, CSIRO is also crafting lower - tech programs for farmers in nearby developing countries, which may face severe food shortages due to
crop failures and even
widespread famine
as the weather heats up, water dries up, and population explodes.
If, that is, we want a good chance of avoiding the dismal future that Bill Hare, an accomplished scientist and the godfather of Greenpeace's climate campaign, has so carefully warned us about: Unstable weather, routine heat waves,
widespread drought,
crop failure, and mass extinction, rising sea levels, and, in general, a markedly more hostile environment and a situation that our society,
as presently constituted, is unlikely to navigate with grace and aplomb.