from breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca to world@lemmy.world on 16 Oct 23:30
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More than half the world’s food production will be at risk of failure within the next 25 years as a rapidly accelerating water crisis grips the planet, unless urgent action is taken to conserve water resources and end the destruction of the ecosystems on which our fresh water depends, experts have warned in a landmark review.
Half the world’s population already faces water scarcity, and that number is set to rise as the climate crisis worsens, according to a report from the Global Commission on the Economics of Water published on Thursday.
Demand for fresh water will outstrip supply by 40% by the end of the decade, because the world’s water systems are being put under “unprecedented stress”, the report found.
The commission found that governments and experts have vastly underestimated the amount of water needed for people to have decent lives.
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I’ll be almost 80 by then, so I guess it’ll be like this for me:
<img alt="" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/0af2efa2bd5b6cdf18af2b19bc8de8d4/tumblr_pow8duTvuI1uaqtxco1_540.gif">
So Mad Max it is then