The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a frightening document. The 2500 scientists involved are usually very conservative in their conclusions especially as they need the backing of some governments that have been sceptical in the past.
This latest report leaves no doubt that climate change is happening even faster than previously expected, that it is mainly caused by human activity and that the effects will be disasterous unless urgent action is taken.
The report predicts that nearly one third of the world’s species could be driven to extinction as the world warms up.
For us at Peak Food, our belief that we are headed for food shortages is confirmed by the prediction that harvests will be cut dramatically across the world. We have been saying that climate change is just one of the factors that is allready causing food prices to rise and has brought us to a very dangerous situation where we have such low reserve food stocks that any new crisis such as severe drought in North America or disruption to the oil supplies on which farming now depends, would cause chaos and hunger throughout the world.