Millions face starvation as world warms, say scientists

[bhikkhu]

6. Looking at the numbers, food production is more of a problem than population

...if you leave Africa out of the equation. Outside of Africa, the current birthrates are pretty close to replacement level, and the long-term trends are toward settling in under replacement level within a couple of decades.

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=sp_dyn_tfrt_in&idim=country:USA&dl=en&hl=en&q=fertility%20rates#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=sp_dyn_tfrt_in&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=region&ifdim=region&tdim=true&hl=en_US&dl=en&ind=false

is a good spot to look at that (or just google "fertility rates&quot .

Food production to feed 7 billion people, on the other hand, is a massive ongoing enterprise, where a whole complex infrastructure has to work to keep things moving along. It shouldn't be hard to realize that a monkey wrench in the works would be disastrous, when there's no more than a few days food supply at any given moment in most regions of the world, and the whole thing is set up now as a "market-driven solution". Brief and localized disasters can be responded to and mediated, but there is no structure that could address a systematic failure of any number of points.