Tag Archives: famine

Wheat production impacted by warmer winters

Posted on September 26, 2022 by borderslynn

The United States Department of Agriculture has advised farmers that plant hardiness zones must shift 100 miles north. They expect this shift will become 300 miles by 2050. The areas which are left behind will become unable to grow wheat … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged climate change, declining wheat production, famine, global wheat growers, latitude between 30 and 60 degrees north, Russia, ukraine, warmer winters, wheat futures, Wheat origins | Leave a comment

Freshwater availability shrinking as we make perverse decisions

Posted on September 24, 2022 by borderslynn

Globally, around 80 percent of freshwater is used for food production and agriculture. Out of all the water covering the earth, only 2 percent is fresh. That remaining 10 to 20 percent is set aside for industry. Urban Africa, with … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged rivers, agriculture, freshwater, drought, famine, climate warming, industry, lakes, glacier melt, lake shrinking, lake algae blooms | Leave a comment

Human existence has weaponised the environment

Posted on August 27, 2022 by borderslynn

David Wallace – Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future, tells us a truth we must, by now, all understand. He says it is “…the end of normal” because ” we have already exited the state … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged catastrophe, climate future, David Wallace-Wells, desolation, extremes, famine, feedbacks, flooding, greenhouse gas, homelessness, industry, snow melt, unprecedented weather, war, wildfires | Leave a comment

Battle for Resources

Posted on March 16, 2022 by borderslynn

In Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s book ‘Strongmen’ she says geopolitics is when authoritarian regimes have a …. conception of the state as an organic entity with the right to defend itself from threats to its safety and the right to expand into … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged conflict, famine, farming practices, food price index, food security, land contamination, livestock feeds, oligarchs and privatisation, responsibility of war zone soil contamination, world shortages | Leave a comment

‘Socioeconomic Divisions have Worsened’

Posted on September 11, 2021 by borderslynn

9/11 did not change the world – it was already on the path to decades of conflict Republished on September 11th, 2021 September 10, 2021 11.47am BST Author Paul RogersProfessor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford Disclosure statement Paul Rogers is … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 9/11, climate change, Covid, famine, inequality, one percent, people vs people, poverty, profit before people, war on terror, weak vs strong | Leave a comment