Growing populations, falling energy sources and food shortages will create the “perfect storm” by 2030, the UK’s chief scientist Professor John Beddington has said.
The demand for resources will create a crisis with dire consequences, Prof Beddington predicts.
Demand for food and energy will jump 50 per cent by 2030 and for fresh water by 30 per cent, as the global population tops 8.3 billion. Climate change will exacerbate matters in unpredictable ways. Read the rest of this entry »
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