are quickly running out of time to reduce carbon emissions enough to avoid the catastrophic consequences of climate change. among a laundry list of bad news of what will happen if we do nothing. some of the reports of the most dire warnings are reserved to what happens to our food. a decrease in the yield of crop yields. global prices could increase anywhere from 3% to 84% by the year 2050. and warmer, more acidic oceans could make fish harder to catch and more difficult to feed those and eat the fish who survive. and, some crops could even become less nutritious and filling as a result of growing in an atmosphere with elevated c o2. in short, the primary way that most people on the planet will experience climate change is through food. what we eat, how much we pay for it, and how available it will be for our consumption. it is a bleak story that the u.n. is telling.
services to come to the rescue. governments have failed to protect their most vulnerable. the poor, elderly are fenlding for themselves. drought have unpopulated regions unlivable. the inhabitants become displaced as masses leave in search of home they clash in conflicts over rapidly diminishing resources. amid the chaos, not a girl who is looking for this. she s looking to meet the most basic of human needs. there s just not enough food to go around. scared yet? ready to buy the movie rights? if not, then prepare yourselves to be terrified because that chilling story is actually not a fiction. it was a very a brebbreviated version of the consequences of this u.n. report titled climate change 2014. in the report released this week the u.n. tells a story of how we
more dystopian series. i cannot put this down when i got my hands on this. this is so engrossing. spoiler alert. i can t help but to share some of the highlights. here s the story. sometime in the not so distant future man kind will have set planet earth on a collision course towards certain doom from which there may be no turning back. the relentless drive of human consumption has overwhelmed our world s ability to sustain civilization and in this story our negligence has completely transformed the planet and in turn our planet transforms us. having long passed the point of stopping the disaster, humanity is left with only one option. we have to adapt and no one is compared. there s a series of cataclysmic flads that eradicate coast lines, devastating cities, leaving many of us without the modern conveniences we took for granted. there s no more electricity, running water, no more emergency
it s getting better as oyster harvests continue to drop because of the effects of the b.p. oil spill. so let me pull out adrian. we ve heard now sort of we have a clear sense of what this story is. are these the kinds of stories that can then be used effectively before congress or in impact work in order to actually move the needle on the willingness to make policy? absolutely. the human face is critical. we need to tell these stories, and i think that this story is one of the most vivid. the fossil fuel industry has a strangle hold on our government. i think they have almost two lobbyists per member of congress at this point. that s something that the public can never compete against, but until we make that clear and bring these stories home, bring them to congress, we are not going to get rid of that strangle hold of these oil companies, the coal companies. we need to start doing that. so this goes back to the
change. david singer, david epstein, all coming up. but first declaring independence from the virus. that s probably more of a question than a statement. noting traveling is surpassing pre-covid levels. it signals the return of the city s air show. a roaring comeback, the best kind of story to tell. but you know what i m going to say next, right? other headlines from the region reflect the pandemic s continued grip, specifically its grip on americans who are not vaccinated. on this holiday weekend, it s true, many communities are able to declare independence from covid-19, but others still are not. only 20 states have reached president biden s july 4th goal of having 70% of americans vaccinated with at least one dose. and let s be clear, they re mostly blue states.