Ashanti Thomas

April 3, 2016

Earth 103

Blog 9

Blog 9

In the article “Study: Climate Change-Caused Food Scarcity Could Have Dire Consequences” a model predicts climate changes will impact our food system causing malnutrition. Calories of food per person will increase in 2050 but with climate change it will not be at its ideal peak that we would want it to be because there is a predicted 3 percent decrease in calories each year, this could cause 500,00 extra deaths per year up to 2050. These deaths from the drop in calories would be considered extra deaths considering the mortality rate we already have.

I think this model and article is telling us that the more the climate changes it will continue to effect crop growth and as food supply of fruits and veggies etc lowers, our calorie intake does which will begin to destroy the population (malnutrition, etc.)

https://weather.com/health/news/climate-change-food-scarcit