Sentences with phrase «widespread food shortages»

He claims that movement founder Rob Hopkins (see my interview with Rob Hopkins for more on his philosophy) talks «almost cheerfully about passing peak oil, widespread food shortages and the idea of globalization crashing suddenly» and he quotes Jennifer Gray, founder of the US arm of Transition, as telling the New York Times that she expects a «a big population die - off.»

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

A «growing number of experts,» it said, were predicting widespread food shortages and other «demographic catastrophes... in the words of [British scientist and writer] C.P. Snow, we shall be watching people starve on television.»

The world faces widespread food shortages due to global warming.

A 2013 follow up report, which focused on impacts of climate change on Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and South East Asia; tells us that if the world warms by 2 °C (3.6 °F)-- warming which may be reached in 20 to 30 years — there will be widespread food shortages, unprecedented heat - waves, and more intense storms.

Some researchers have proposed that Toba's eruption was big enough to cause a reverse greenhouse effect that cooled Earth for decades, leading to ecological disaster and widespread food shortages that only a few small communities were able to survive.

Citizens of the crisis - torn nation are struggling to cope with widespread food shortages, the collapse of its traditional currency and hyperinflation — which the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has forecast to hit 13,000 percent in 2018.

The rise of tuberculosis (TB) in Zimbabwe during the socio - economic crisis of 2008 - 9 has been linked to widespread food shortage, according to a new study led by Canadian researchers from the University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health published in PLOS ONE.

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The country also is struggling with widespread shortages of basic foods and medicine.

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...

In September, he announced a plan to give rabbits to families suffering from food shortages in order to help address widespread hunger.

Rising food prices, crowded buses, and widespread shortages were evident throughout the country.

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.

There are already widespread food and medicine shortages across Venezuela.

Evidence for this is already appearing in the form of so - called «failed states» and the current widespread food and power shortages.

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.

These tipping points could be ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica melting permanently, global food shortages and widespread crop failures with more extreme weather, rising ocean temperatures and acidity reaching triggering a crash in global coral reef ecosystems, and warming oceans push the release of methane from the sea floor, which could lead to runaway climate change, etc..

And in a 4 °C - warmer world, widespread coral reef mortality and food shortages are expected.

Instead, they paint a stark picture of rising temperatures causing floods and wildfires, food and water shortages, damage to human health, and widespread disruption of services and destruction of roads, railways bridges and buildings.