Sep 20, 2022
There is a real risk of many people dying from famine this year due to climate change, displacement, the effects of COVID-19 and the Ukraine-Russia conflict. In East Africa, crippling droughts have made food insecurity even worse. The United Nations World Food Program says children are dying from a lack of food in Somalia. CGTN’s Caroline Malone spoke to the Somali Special Presidential Envoy for Drought Response at the UN headquarters in New YorkFood-matters,
Welcome to Transition Studies. To prosper for very much longer on the changing Earth humankind will need to move beyond its current fossil-fueled civilization toward one that is sustained on recycled materials and renewable energy. This is not a trivial shift. It will require a major transition in all aspects of our lives.
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