The people who are going to be starved by climate change didn't cause it
10.15.1912:01 AM
The people who are going to be starved by climate change didn’t cause it
A new report finds that the fight to end global hunger is being put at risk by the changing climate’s effect on agriculture.
BY BEN PAYNTER 3 MINUTE READ
Globally, the number of countries suffering from severe hunger has decreased dramatically over the last two decades. But that achievement hides more dire news: We’re not making progress on global hunger fast enough to keep pace with climate change.
And over the last five years, the total number of undernourished people (the metric used in development language to measure hunger, meaning that a person does not get their daily caloric requirements) in the world actually increased, from 785 million to 822 million. What’s worse: The people who are going hungry primarily live in the developing world—the places most likely to get hit hardest as the world warms up, and also the areas whose footprints are least responsible for climate change.
That finding comes from the 2019 Global Hunger Index, an annual report card developed by international humanitarian group Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe, a global food-aid group based in Germany. Since 2000, these organizations have been gathering existing hunger data from intergovernmental organizations—like the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank—and combining it with their own studies and observations from being active in more than 40 countries hard hit by hunger issues.
“If we can sort of capture these trends and accompany that with some case studies—some ground truth—on an annual basis, hopefully it provides an important source of information for our colleague organizations,” says Ed Kenney, the vice president of communications at Concern Worldwide. “They can calibrate their approach to fighting hunger and food insecurity. And the UN system, governments, and other decision-makers can use it as a source in terms of thinking about where to deploy their resources by recognizing especially where the need is greatest.”
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`Yep, the rest of us are just collateral damage...will it be an extinction event or just a bottleneck in population worldwide? I don't pretend to know...I hate the bastards who think they can buy their way out of this mess.. 
