Sentences with phrase «remaining arable land»
Either the world will continue to heat up, or a complex series of climate changes could tip us over into a sudden new ice age - one so severe, suggests Peter Schwartz, co-founder of the Global Business Network consultancy, that the planet's remaining arable land would only be able to support a mere two billion people.
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As long as vast areas of arable land remained untilled, care for the land seemed sentimental.
East Antarctic ice sheet: Abrupt (geologic, but still shortish), absolutely catastrophic (even over centuries; 70 meters covers an awful lot of arable land and infrastructure, and there's no guarantee that the remaining dry land will be an Eden).