Sentences with phrase «water and food shortages»

Right now it seems that: It's more likely that Summer Arctic Sea Ice extent will disappear before 2025 It's more likely that 2 C will occur nearer to 2033 than 2040 It's more likely that 4 C will occur closer to 2050 than 2100 It's more likely that more people will die from heat stress, disease, or severe clean water and food shortages than extreme weather events.

Guardian: National Intelligence Council also sees water and food shortages and suggests world is at a «critical juncture in human history» A US intelligence portrait of the world in 2030 predicts that China will be the largest economic power, climate change will create instability by contributing to water and food shortages, and there will be [continue reading...]

Climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation, water and food shortages are all clear signs: We can no longer finance our consumption on credit.

Just last week, the World Bank reported that within the next generation that same warming atmosphere could lead to widespread water and food shortages, historic heat waves, prolonged droughts, and more intense flooding.

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

With a population expected to double in the next 50 years, Egypt is projected to have critical countrywide fresh water and food shortages by 2025.

Added sea - level rise, shifts in precipitation, and jumps in local temperatures could lead to vast water and food shortages.

Not exact matches

Although officials from corrections departments in all three areas say things went smoothly, accounts from inmates and their families suggest otherwise, with reports of flooding, at least one mass escape, food and water shortages, unhygienic conditions, and a lack of reliable communication.

These include the costs of food and water shortages, coastal real estate damage, and many others.

With risks ranging from extreme weather, water shortage, and unsustainable urbanisation to non-communicable disease, youth unemployment, and the global food crisis, we recommend you consult all three Global Opportunity Reports and seek out the risk areas most relevant for you.

United Nations officials and the International Red Cross have reported that there is a shortage of food and water for those who have fled their homes.

But food and water shortages were being reported in many of the affected islands on Wednesday.

Let's think worst case — should the currency collapse in your home country... and should a bank run ensue... and should the government mandate that all banks then close for no less than a week... and should subsequent food shortages take place... and should no clean water be available... and should the electricity and heat not work... and should violent protests, riots, and widespread looting erupt...

By all accounts there is a serious humanitarian crisis underway, due to food, water, and fuel shortages and limited communications around the island.

Government's chief science advisor Dr. Beddington warns of a «perfect storm» of food, energy and water shortages by 2030.

CNN: On holiday of sacrifice, many Syrians can not celebrate Artillery shelling, water outages and food shortages, rather than presents and sweets, greeted many Syrians on the most important Muslim holiday of the year.

Puerto Rico police said Wednesday officers have arrested 36 people so far for looting and stealing as millions of the island's residents continue to struggle with shortages in food, water, and gasoline after Hurricane Maria.

Leaders must also take a long - term approach to the management of oil wealth to ensure the region can meet the challenges of food and water shortages, rising population levels and global warming.

A combination of growing populations and food, energy and water shortages will reach crisis point by 2030, the government's chief scientific advisor will say later today.

Such underinvestment not only slows scientific advancement, it also threatens the nation's ability to address pressing global problems such as food, water and energy shortages, climate change and disease.

The impact of global warming has been linked to the severity of droughts, water scarcity, and food shortages in war - torn Syria.

Shortages of food and water could tip the balance in Afghanistan, Iraq and other politically precarious states

The impact of global warming has been linked to the severity of droughts, water scarcity, and food shortages in war - torn Syria, but now an internationally recognized expert on water resources has identified climate change as a factor contributing to political turmoil in the region.

Obviously, the numbers of people that it is trying to feed; problems of shortages of water, disappearing quantities of top soil on which we have to grow these different crops; and, of course, now climate change, which also is throwing a lot of randomness or bad factors into our attempts to grow enough food for everybody.

At the same time, CSIRO is also crafting lower - tech programs for farmers in nearby developing countries, which may face severe food shortages due to crop failures and even widespread famine as the weather heats up, water dries up, and population explodes.

He has warned of potentially destabilizing and costly food shortages, populations outstripping dwindling natural resources, water tables falling precipitously and glaciers retreating, bringing drought and floods.

China's wetlands have shrunk nearly 9 percent since 2003, forestry officials said on Monday, aggravating water scarcity in a country where food production, energy output and industrial activity are already under pressure from water shortages.

Survivors complained of shortages of food and water, piling pressure on Aquino whose once soaring popularity has been eroded in recent weeks by a corruption scandal roiling his political allies.

BEIJING (Reuters)- China's wetlands have shrunk nearly 9 percent since 2003, forestry officials said on Monday, aggravating water scarcity in a country where food production, energy output and industrial activity are already under pressure from water shortages.

«Climate change, energy and food insecurity, biodiversity loss and water shortages all have raised the stakes,» said Jianguo «Jack» Liu, Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability and CSIS director.

dangers from particulates, dangers from poisons in food and water, dangers from fuel shortages, dangers from war, all of these would ease as we shifted away from this hydrocarbon economy.

In developing countries like Uganda, where floods, food and water shortages, outbreaks of disease, the effects of HIV / AIDS, and internal conflicts occur, the funding of scientific research [will not be the first priority].

Such extremes have led to millions facing food and water shortages, as well as thousands of deaths globally, pointing to the need to not only mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, but to also invest in adaptation and improving the forecast systems of developing countries, Taalas said in his forward to the report.

The term «bangers» originates from sausages made in the WWII era when due to rationing and food shortages, additives and water were added to the sausages, making them more prone to exploding when cooked.

They wanted to address interwoven issues of food security, fuel wood shortages, soil erosion, clean water and poverty.

We currently care for more than 40 African penguins in our Cold Water Quest gallery, but did you know their counterparts in the wild are facing harmful challenges such as oil spills, food shortages and habitat degradation?

We are in a fast changing world where overpopulation, food and water shortages, melting polar caps and an over-reliance on fragile technological infrastructures is very real.

the digital age's impact on our expectations of privacy; the increasingly pronounced economic inequality throughout the world, which leaves resources under the control of few; increased military spending at a time when basic human needs related to shelter, food, and medicine are not being met; and worldwide drought and the impact of water shortages.

By 2025, droughts, food shortages and scarcity of fresh water will plague large swaths of the globe, from northern China to the Horn of Africa.

Fuel shortages, food shortages, water shortages, the list goes on and on.

But the world's poorest people will bear the heaviest burden — from rising seas and more intense droughts, shortages of water and food.

Also, the animals, cattle, sheep and horses are in pain due to the shortage of food; grasses, and fresh vegetation and perhaps most vital, water.

We just sit back and let water shortages occur (which will be the first crisis) and then droughts will diminish the food production so that millions will die and most likely begin fighting for resources amongst themselves and reducing the population to levels that we (the super rich) may have a chance to survive against.

Potential shortages of food and water, because of climate change, could be drivers of future conflicts.

CRITICAL — serious drop in food production, serious water shortages, significant sea level rise, political unrest, major drop in world GDP, major animal extinctions and millions of human deaths.

Consider the possibility that not just millions, but billions face disastrous consequences from the likes of (including but not limited to): Sandy (and other hybrid and out - of - season storms enhanced by the earth's circulatory eccentricities and warmer oceans); the drought in progress; wildfires; floods (just last week, Argentina had 16 inches of rain in 2 hours *); derechos; increased cold and snow in the north as the Arctic melts and cracks up, breaking up the Arctic circulation and sending cold out of what was previously largely a contained system, and losing its own consistent cold, seriously interfering with the Jet Stream, pollution of multiple kinds such as in China, the increase of algae and the like in our oceans as they heat, and food and water shortages.

Food and water shortages or huge floods could push vulnerable regions over the edge into crises that could «demand an American humanitarian relief or military response», it... Read more

But whatever our stance on CO2, it's clear we need to prepare somewhat better for extreme weather events, water, food and energy shortages than we do now.

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.

They warn of water shortages, food shortages and national security risk.