Eating Our Way To Extinction, Part 5 of 6

“People need to reconnect with what they’re eating.” As our oceans and atmosphere begin to warm, the water cycles of the planet are beginning to change. Taiwan (Formosa) is no stranger to extreme weather, but in recent years the strength and frequency of the typhoons have increased. This has had a devastating effect on the Atayal people and their way of life. “The rain has become unbalanced.” “It will have an impact on food supply and prices and availability, and so estimates now are between 500,000 to over 1,000,000 acres of farmland that will come out of production in California.”

“In terms of water, the truth is that the drought in Spain has become a complete catastrophe. People don’t realize the food system is collapsing.” As new conflicts break out over these dwindling resources, we are witnessing the beginning of a mass exodus of people moving North, desperate to survive. In response to this modern-day mass migration, Spain has built a massive wall that runs along its southernmost border in Melilla. Amid predictions that this migratory pattern is set to increase, it seems increasingly clear that our world is poorly prepared to cope.

“700 billion gallons globally is wasted on fracking. Sounds like a lot, but animal agriculture, the production of animals that we use for meat around the globe uses 70 trillion gallons of fresh water a year. [A] hundred times as much as fracking.” “Overall, in the world, 1.8 billion people are living in areas with severe water scarcity. The livestock sector is the single biggest water user in the world. One-third of the water use in the world is being used for producing animal products, meat and dairy.”