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The Coming Malthusian Catastrophe: The Climate and Biodiversity Crises as Global Food Crisis

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  • Blaber, Richard Michael

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Thomas Malthus predicted that human population would always grow faster than food production, but the ‘Green Revolution’ of the 1960s appeared to disprove his thesis. Now anthropogenic climate change, with its adverse impacts on crop yields, the supply of water for irrigation, and the health and increased mortality of farm animals, is once again threatening to vindicate him, as human population grows from 8 billion now to an estimated 9.74 billion by 2050. Human-induced biodiversity loss is compounding this problem.

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  • Blaber, Richard Michael, 2023. "The Coming Malthusian Catastrophe: The Climate and Biodiversity Crises as Global Food Crisis," SocArXiv wef2n, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:wef2n
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/wef2n
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