Sentences with phrase «drastic food shortages»

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The declaration also recognizes that «it may be too late to avert drastic climate change» and encourages compassionate responses to «such calamitous challenges as population displacement, food and water shortage, catastrophic weather, and rampant disease.»

In his concluding chapter, Snyder describes the Holocaust as an act of «ecological panic» -LSB-...] In the 21st century, he speculates, rapid and destructive climate change could lead to wholesale food shortages caused by desertification of huge areas of the planet, or alternatively drastic economic collapse and state bankruptcies.