This tragedy is not unlike AGW will be in about 30 years. India will be in full disaster mode (but unlike this, there is nothing they can do to mitigate the consequences); most equatorial poor country’s will be following the same path towards general collapse. Food will be very short supply though most the world and rich countries will (for a while) read about the horror’s before getting on with their lives.
Of course, by then, we are likely to have been hit by more and possibly deadlier pandemics. This, like the obvious start of AGW we are seeing even now is the real start of what seeds that were planted then have had time to germinate in the twentieth century.