Sentences with phrase «current food shortages»

This issue is timely today not just because of the current food shortages but because greens are calling for vast sums of money to be spent to ward off future climate change.

We hope you can help us out during our current food shortage crisis!

Not exact matches

Q.: Other critics of lifeboat imagery have questioned the legitimacy of shortages, have attacked the injustice inherent in current practices of distribution of food and resources, and have argued that it is possible to feed from 38 to 45 billion people on this planet.

The root cause of all the major environmental issues from food shortages, loss of biodiversity to global warming is current overpopulation.

Evidence for this is already appearing in the form of so - called «failed states» and the current widespread food and power shortages.

Abstract: An evaluation of analyses sponsored by the predecessor to the U.K. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) of the global impacts of climate change under various mitigation scenarios (including CO2 stabilization at 550 and 750 ppm) coupled with an examination of the relative costs associated with different schemes to either mitigate climate change or reduce vulnerability to various climate - sensitive hazards (namely, malaria, hunger, water shortage, coastal flooding, and losses of global forests and coastal wetlands) indicates that, at least for the next few decades, risks and / or threats associated with these hazards would be lowered much more effectively and economically by reducing current and future vulnerability to those hazards rather than through stabilization.