Name The Decade - Friday
May 9th, 2008 by Wiley CodyThis be the last day. Full reveal tomorrow. So… 1970s or 2000s?
____ “‘A major climatic change would force economic and social adjustments on a worldwide scale,’ warns a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, “because the global patterns of food production and population that have evolved are implicitly dependent on the climate of the present century.”
____ “Perhaps 10 or 20 per cent of the world’s land surface would remain within the agriculturally productive zone.”
____ “The first casualties would be populations of animals, wild and domestic, since the competition for productive land surface would be quickly felt by mankind. The raising of food animals would be too inefficient in an era of land scarcity, and humanity would have to exist on a vegetarian and synthetic diet.”
____ “The world’s food-producing system,” warns Dr. James D. McQuigg of NOAA’s Center for Climatic and Environmental Assessment, “is much more sensitive to the weather variable than it was even five years ago.”
____ “Even if temerature and rainfall patterns change only slightly in the near future in one or more of the three major grain-exporting countries - the U.S., Canada, Australia - global food shores would be sharply reduced. University of Toronto Climatologist Kenneth Hare, a former president of the Royal Meteorological Society, believes that the continuing drought and the recent failure of the Russian harvest gave the world a grim premonition of what might happen. Warns Hare: “I don’t believe that the world’s present population is sustainable”
