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‘Perfect Storm’ of Food, Energy, and Water Shortages by 2030, Predicts UK Chief Scientist

March 25, 2009 1 comment

Professor John Beddington, the UK Government’s Chief Scientist, has warned that the world’s population is facing a series of threats to livelihoods due to insecure access to food, energy, and water.
The BBC News coverage notes that:
demand for food and energy will jump 50% by 2030 and for fresh water by 30%, as the population tops

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Nobel Winner Claims Future Food Crisis is No “False Alarm”

March 23, 2009 No comments yet

Paul Krugman, a New York Times columnist and winner of the Nobel Prize for economics, recently warned that the world should not allow the financial crisis to overshadow a lingering food crisis.
Krugman noted that a number of resource constraints – such as access to water, oil, and arable land – are converging with growing demand,

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