climatechangenews | China is protecting itself against future food supply
problems caused by climate change by buying or leasing large tracts of
land in Africa and South America, a leading UK climate scientist says.
Professor Peter Wadhams, an expert on the disappearing Arctic ice,
says that while countries in North America and Europe are ignoring the
threat that changing weather patterns are causing to the world food
supply, China is taking “self-protective action”.
He says that changes in the jet stream caused by the melting of the
ice in the Arctic are threatening the most productive agricultural areas
on the planet.
“The impact of extreme, often violent weather on crops in a world
where the population continues to increase rapidly can only be
disastrous,” he warns.
“Sooner
or later, there will be an unbridgeable gulf between global food needs
and our capacity to grow food in an unstable climate. Inevitably,
starvation will reduce the world’s population.”
