Wars and hungry refugees a consequence of global warming
Traditional food production areas, such as the Mediterranean and large parts of southern Australia, may become unsuitable for agriculture because of soaring temperatures and low rainfall.
New Zealand may no longer be able to grow kiwi fruit; parts of Asia will struggle to maintain rice crops; Germany may take over from Italy as the world’s chief chianti producer; and the ideal climate to produce sparkling and burgundy wines may be in Britain, a notion bound to cause great consternation among the French.
There will be some winners; northern Europe, Canada and parts of the former Soviet Union may have longer growing seasons and fewer frosts but many more losers.
We can expect more droughts, extreme temperatures, hail storms, more intense cyclones and hurricanes, as well as the spread of pests and diseases. This will all impact on food production. The world’s population is still growing but the predictions I have read in serious journals are that in about 40 years time this will turn around and nearly the world’s human population will halve over the next 50 years.
Do you think this will cause political chaos and conflict?. Some people say the conflict in Sudan is the first climate war. It began when severe drought in the Sudan reduced the amount of arable land and led to tensions between the settled farmers and the nomadic herders, two groups which had co-existed for many years.
This is the world we are bringing our children into if we don’t all begin to reduce ourcarbon footprint. I look at my grandchildren and worry about what they will face in their forties.
Can any of us truly look our children in the eye and say we love them, and do nothing to prevent global warming?
[tags] children, conflict, food production, global warming, hungry refugeees, political chaos, wars
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