Climate Change Means Hunger and Thirst for Billions
January 31st, 2007Via: AFP:
Billions of people will suffer water shortages and the number of hungry will grow by hundreds of millions by 2080 as global temperatures rise, scientists warn in a new report.
The report estimates that between 1.1 billion and 3.2 billion people will be suffering from water scarcity problems by 2080 and between 200 million and 600 million more people will be going hungry.
The assessment is contained in a draft of a major international report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to be released later this year, Australia’s The Age newspaper said.
Rising sea levels could flood seven million more homes, while Australia’s famed Great Barrier Reef, treasured as the world’s largest living organism, could be dead within decades, the scientists warn, the newspaper said.
Rev. Sun Myung Moon is ahead of the game there. He is sitting on 600,000 hectares directly above the world largest aquifer; the Guarani aquifer.
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2004/11/5/13314/9719
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaran%C3%AD_Aquifer
Even if energy is free, it is still a resource game. Eventually we’ll need to look off world for resources.