{"id":1538,"date":"2009-08-26T08:13:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T07:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2009-08-26T08:13:25","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T07:13:25","slug":"a-perfect-storm-of-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1538","title":{"rendered":"A perfect storm of shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;As the world&#8217;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&#8217;s the simple idea at the heart of the warning from John Beddington, the UK government&#8217;s chief scientific adviser, of a possible crisis in 2030.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is how BBC online opens a major examination across the BBC&#8217;s media outlets of a crisis facing the whole of humanity. More information <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/8213884.stm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As the world&#8217;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&#8217;s the simple idea at the heart of the warning from John Beddington, the UK government&#8217;s chief scientific adviser, of a possible crisis in 2030.&#8221; This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}