{"id":48958,"date":"2019-10-12T07:05:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T12:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48958"},"modified":"2019-10-12T07:05:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T12:05:14","slug":"national-geographic-admits-billions-of-people-will-face-shortages-of-food-and-clean-water-over-the-next-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48958","title":{"rendered":"National Geographic Admits Billions Of People Will \u201cFace Shortages Of Food And Clean Water\u201d Over The Next 30 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/even-national-geographic-admits-billions-of-people-will-face-shortages-of-food-and-clean-water-over-the-next-30-years\">National Geographic Admits Billions Of People Will \u201cFace Shortages Of Food And Clean Water\u201d Over The Next 30 Years<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of people out there don\u2019t like when I write these kinds of articles, because they directly contradict the false narrative that humanity has an extremely bright future ahead.&nbsp; Sadly, the truth is that our planet and everything that lives on it is rapidly deteriorating.&nbsp; And I am not talking about the false environmentalism being pushed by the mainstream media, Greta Thunberg and countless well-funded NGOs.&nbsp; What I am talking about is the stuff that is happening right in our face.&nbsp; We are systematically poisoning our planet, thousands upon thousands of species are going extinct, and we are literally running out of all of our most important natural resources.&nbsp; There isn\u2019t going to be enough of&nbsp;<strong>anything<\/strong>&nbsp;in the not too distant future.&nbsp; In fact, even&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/weather\/topstories\/billions-face-food-water-shortages-over-next-30-years-as-nature-fails\/ar-AAIApPM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Geographic<\/a>&nbsp;is admitting that up to five billion people could soon be facing \u201cshortages of food and clean water\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>As many as five billion people, particularly in Africa and South Asia, are likely to face&nbsp;<strong>shortages<\/strong>&nbsp;of food and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/freshwater\/freshwater-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">clean water in the coming decades<\/a>&nbsp;as nature declines. Hundreds of millions more could be vulnerable to increased risks of severe coastal storms, according to the first-ever model examining how nature and humans can survive together.<\/p><p><strong>\u201cI hope no one is shocked that billions of people could be impacted by 2050,\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;says Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer a landscape ecologist at Stanford University. \u201cWe know we are dependent on nature for many things,\u201d says Chaplin-Kramer, lead author of the paper \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/366\/6462\/255\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Global Modeling Of Nature\u2019s Contributions To People<\/a>\u201d published in&nbsp;<em>Science<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The clock is literally ticking for humanity, but meanwhile we spend immense amounts of energy on relatively meaningless political squabbles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Geographic Admits Billions Of People Will \u201cFace Shortages Of Food And Clean Water\u201d Over The Next 30 Years A lot of people out there don\u2019t like when I write these kinds of articles, because they directly contradict the false narrative that humanity has an extremely bright future ahead.&nbsp; Sadly, the truth is that our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[22346,4052,4901,27354,4053,7452,2060],"class_list":["post-48958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-food-shortage","tag-food-shortages","tag-michael-snyder","tag-shortage","tag-shortages","tag-the-economic-collapse-blog","tag-water-shortage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48959,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48958\/revisions\/48959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}