Sentences with phrase «massive food shortages»

That's not very efficient, and if it came to having massive food shortages in the future, I think that phasing in a more vegetarian diet could help solve that problem - along with many other problems related to the consumption of meat - with more ease than trying to build enough of these vertical farms to feed all these billions of people and the dozens of billions of animals they would eat.

Venezuela's economic downturn has spiralled into a full - fledged humanitarian crisis with massive food shortages and hyperinflation.

Not exact matches

These conditions have contributed to the country's worsening humanitarian crisis, including massive food and medical shortages.

Either the economy would move to markets based on supply and demand, or it would face devastating shortages of food and other critical goods, with massive black markets and corruption.

Observers and activists attribute the North Korea's malnutrition and occasional starvation problems to food shortages — which at times have been massive — and more fundamentally to the unequal distribution of food caused in large measure by the North Korean government's deliberate decisions and policies.

Their report suggested that water and food shortages, combinedwith violent weather events, could lead to massive upheavals andinstigate conflicts in every global region.

While Congress members like Fred Upton (Republican, Michigan) yowl about the EPA's efforts to regulate carbon emissions as «an unconstitutional power grab» and attach the term «job - killing» to every piece of environmental legislation with a political pulse, national security officials have been offering dire warnings about the perils of climate disruption and its offshoots like food shortage, water depletion and massive migration.

«climate disruption and its offshoots like food shortage, water depletion and massive migration.»

If you are evaluating this statement: «national security officials have been offering dire warnings about the perils of climate disruption and its offshoots like food shortage, water depletion and massive migration,» then you should also review the analysis provided by our intelligence services, which have looked at climate change, and are part of the «national security apparatus.»

Oil — > Transport, Electricity — > 1) C02 and 10x stronger or so CH4 in air — > Global Warming — > Draughts, Hurricanes, Floods — > Lost crops, forests, homes — > CO2 fixing potential lost, Starvation, Diseases, More ressources / energy needed 2) C02 and 10x stronger or so CH4 in air — > Global Warming — > Ice caps and glaciers metling — > Earth natural climate stabilizers lost + massive CH4 release from pergelisoils & ancient ice melt 3) CO2 in water — > Oceans acidification — > Destruction of centennial / millenial coral reefs — > Loss of oceans» filters / pulmons / incubators / biodiversity reservoir — > Food shortage

It's not that simple, though: The massive Tambora eruption of 1815 cooled the Earth so much that Europe suffered the «year without summer,» leading to extreme food shortages.

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Consequential to such a scenario are widespread food shortages, extreme poverty, massive destruction of our habitats, and imbalance in our ecosystems.

Indeed, an article in Popular Science cites a study by the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University that predicts that U.S. ethanol production could consume more than half of corn, wheat and coarse grains by 2012, ratcheting up food prices and potentially causing massive shortages.