Sentences with phrase «disrupting food supplies»

The amusing stunt drove home a vital point: Biofuel programs are turning food into fuel, converting cropland into fuel production sites, and disrupting food supplies for hungry people worldwide.

The world has increased in temperature by 0.7 degrees Celsius over the last century, a century which has seen higher sea levels and severe droughts disrupting food supplies.

I would also add those due to wars disrupting food supplies, such as experienced in Sudan.

But let's say that the food industry (growers and processors) is able to keep chemical X below 10 ppb without disrupting the food supply.

This toxin is harmful to the corals and the corals eventually remove the algae from themselves which disrupts their food supply.

Then if you go hog wild on corn ethanol which is one of the more energy intensive ethanol feed stocks, you can disrupt food supplies and the perception of that potential disruption can be much worse than it is.

Not exact matches

If they overused some elements in the system in such a way as to disrupt it seriously, they paid the price in reduced food supply.

Operators are facing four big areas of challenge that Technomic sees as transformative, bound to drive changes in how operators approach business: 1) coping with supply chain challenges, including driver shortages; 2) meeting consumer demand for «food with integrity»; 3) dealing with «regulation nation» where industry - disrupting changes may include a higher minimum wage; and 4) incorporating innovations into operations, including new delivery models, variable pricing, self - ordering systems, and robotics.

This can disrupt the functioning of other genes and create novel proteins that have never been in the food supply and could create toxins and allergens in foods.

In an emergency, food supplies are disrupted, there may be no clean water with which to make up breastmilk substitutes or to clean feeding implements.

In an emergency, food supplies are disrupted, there may be no clean water with which to make up infant formula or to clean feeding implements, and the health care system is stretched past breaking point.

Rising heat is blamed for stoking wildfires, heat waves, droughts, floods and more powerful downpours that disrupt water and food supplies.

Even the generally conservative U.S. National Intelligence Council (NIC) recently predicted that global demand for energy, food and water could easily outstrip supplies over the next decade or so, triggering trade - disrupting international conflicts.

We are exposed to hormone disrupting chemicals (endocrine disrupters) on a daily basis by the air we breathe, the food we eat, plastics, cosmetics, body products, cleaning supplies, pesticides, etc..

But most evidence suggests that droughts will become more intense in many parts of the world if the planet keeps heating up, which could disrupt the world's food supply.

He tells us global warming will disrupt the circulation of the ocean waters, dramatically changing climates, throwing the world food supply into chaos.

«Other oil producing feedstock such as corn and sugarcane often destroy vital farmlands and rainforests, disrupt global food supplies and create new environmental problems.

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Climate change is already disrupting our agriculture and ecosystems, our water and food supplies, our energy, our infrastructure, human health, human safety — now.

21 April 2015 Africa generates very little in the way of greenhouse gas emissions, but it's especially vulnerable to droughts and flooding from climate change, which threaten to disrupt food and water supplies.

For instance, extreme weather events in one region may impact production of commodities that are traded internationally, contributing to shortages of supply and hence increased prices to consumers, influencing financial markets and disrupting food security worldwide, with social unrest a possible outcome of food shortages.

Water supplies, transportation nodes and arteries, food supplies, and energy production and distribution facilities all represent lynch - pins that, if disrupted, can take down a city's ability to effectively function.

Developing countries, some of which are already embroiled in military conflict, may be drawn into larger and more protracted disputes over water, energy supplies or food, all of which may disrupt economic growth at a time when developing countries are beset by more egregious manifestations of climate change.

Translating the above to climate science, if you tell me that in 100 years earth inhabited by your children is going to hell in a handbasket, because our most complicated models built with all those horrendously complicated equestions you can find in math, show that the global temperatures will be 10 deg higher and icecaps will melt, sea will invade land, plant / animal ecosystem will get whacked out of order causing food supply to be badly disrupted, then I, without much climate science expertise, can easily ask you the following questions and scrutinize the results: a) where can I see that your model's futuristic predictions about global temp, icecaps, eco system changes in the past have come true, even for much shorter periods of time, like say 20 years, before I take this for granted and make radical changes in my life?

The heavy snow has also disrupted food transportation logistics, creating a squeeze in vegetable supply in urban centers and upward pressure on food prices.

Climate change is already disrupting food, water and energy supplies in some parts of the world.

''... destroying the livelihood of European farmers, disrupting the international food supply, and potentially causing a food crisis in Europe.»