more panel stuff

[ljgeoff]

A 2017 study found:

"We find that pursuing sustainable irrigation may erode other development and environmental goals due to higher food prices and cropland expansion. This results in over 800,000 more undernourished people and 0.87 GtC additional emissions. Faster total factor productivity growth in irrigated sectors will encourage more aggressive irrigation water use in the basins where irrigation vulnerability is expected to be reduced by inter-basin water transfer."

The thing is, these kinds of projected statistics stand alone. That is, if nothing else changes, like, say about a billion displaced people world-wide, then we'll have 800,000 more undernourished people -- on top of the 800 million currently undernourished people. But I can't help but wonder what those billion of displaced people are going to eat. Or not eat.

While we're in the crisis of sea rise, we'll also be experiencing an increase in world conflicts, and the resulting undernourishment and refugee surge that comes from war.

A 2017 meta-atudy quoted a 2013 meta-study "Hsiang & Burke examined 50 quantitated research studies regarding the association between climate variables and both violent conflict and sociopolitical instability. They included quantitative research studies that employed the most robust experimental or quasi-experimental designs, limiting their focus to investigations that met "modern standards for measuring causal effects". On the basis of their criteria for including studies in this analysis, they believed that independent climate variables were not likely correlated with other variables that were not observed that might have influenced the conflict variable. They found "strong linkage between climate anomalies and social instability."

With all of this going on, how are we going to deal with the thousands of poverty-level homeless families? What's our plan? Don't you think we should begin planning?

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[lokifan]

Jesus. This is terrifying.