Hughes from the University of Hong Kong's School of Biological Sciences projected that, as a result of food scarcity issues, humans would have to adapt through mass mechanization of agriculture and reducing meat consumption. will resemble the hottest day we have thus far ever seen."ĭr.
withering droughts, epic floods, deadly hurricanes, and almost inconceivably hot heatwaves a typical summer day in midlatitude regions like the U.S. There will be "far worse extreme weather events than those we see today. "Ocean acidification, the evil twin of climate change caused by direct absorption of carbon dioxide into water, is likely to wipe out whole classes of plankton, leading to a transformation of marine sea webs that is impossible to imagine." "Krill abundance will decline in Antarctic waters, impacting everything from penguins to whales," Hocevar explained. In the ocean, coral species will start going extinct and - as reef ecosystems collapse - they will take down the food web with them. On the land, there will be far less usable farm land as temperatures continue to rise and precipitation becomes dicier. John Hocevar, a marine biologist and director of Greenpeace's oceans campaign, elaborated on this scenario. This would happen in a two-fold manner, on land and in the sea. This means that there will fewer areas of arable farmland for agricultural production there will be less food, both in quantity and quality, and as infrastructure problems pile up humanity will suffer what Mann described as a "collapsed food distribution system."
Mann, a professor of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania. We now know how badly our cities will be flooded due to climate changeĪs far as eating is concerned, unfettered climate change will lead to a "dramatic reduction in sea life and fish and seafood," according to Dr.
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