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Climate Change Threatens the World’s Food Supply, United Nations Warns
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nytimes.com - by Christopher Flavelle - August 8, 2019
The world’s land and water resources are being exploited at “unprecedented rates,” a new United Nations report warns, which combined with climate change is putting dire pressure on the ability of humanity to feed itself.
The report, prepared by more than 100 experts from 52 countries and released in summary form in Geneva on Thursday, found that the window to address the threat is closing rapidly. A half-billion people already live in places turning into desert, and soil is being lost between 10 and 100 times faster than it is forming, according to the report.
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We can’t keep eating as we are
theguardian.com - by George Monbiot - August 8, 2019
. . . The new report on land by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shies away from the big issues and fails to properly represent the science . . .
. . . The problem is that it concentrates on just one of the two ways of counting the carbon costs of farming . . .
. . . The second accounting method is more important. This could be described as the capital account: how does farming compare to the natural ecosystems that would otherwise have occupied the land?
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