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If Extreme Weather Becomes the Norm, Starvation Awaits

Sat, 2012-10-20 22:55 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

Drought-withered corn stalks in Indiana, August 2012. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

guardian.co.uk - by George Monbiot - October 15, 2012

With forecasts currently based only on averages, food production may splutter out even sooner than we feared

I believe we might have made a mistake: a mistake whose consequences, if I am right, would be hard to overstate. I think the forecasts for world food production could be entirely wrong. Food prices are rising again, partly because of the damage done to crops in the northern hemisphere by ferocious weather.

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