New UN report says human-caused climate change is dramatically degrading the Earth's land and the way people use the land is making global warming worse. It's creating a cycle which is already making food more expensive, scarcer and less nutritious.
says. That creates a vicious cycle which is already making food more expensive, scarcer and less nutritious.
“The way we use land is both part of the problem and also part of the solution,” said Valerie Masson-Delmotte, a French climate scientist who co-chairs one of the panel’s working groups. “Sustainable land management can help secure a future that is comfortable.” In the worst-case scenario, food security problems change from moderate to high risk with just a few more tenths of a degree of warming from now. They go from high to “very high” risk with just another 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit of warming from now.said. “Just to give examples, the crop yields were effected in Europe just in the last two weeks.”
If people change their diets, reducing red meat and increasing plant-based foods, such as fruits, vegetables and seeds, the world can save as much as another 15% of current emissions by mid-century. It would also make people more healthy, Rosenzweig said.
At another 1.8 degrees F of warming from now, which could happen in about 50 years, it said those risks “are projected to be very high.”
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