A perfect storm of shortages
“As the world’s population grows, competition for food, water and energy will increase. Food prices will rise, more people will go hungry, and migrants will flee the worst-affected regions. That’s the simple idea at the heart of the warning from John Beddington, the UK government’s chief scientific adviser, of a possible crisis in 2030.”
This is how BBC online opens a major examination across the BBC’s media outlets of a crisis facing the whole of humanity. More information here.