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The destruction of food supplies by crop pests is being supercharged by the climate crisis, with losses expected to surge, an analysis has concluded.

Researchers said the world was lucky to have so far avoided a major shock and was living on borrowed time, with action needed to diversify crops and boost natural predators of pests.

The key global crops, wheat, rice and maize, are expected to see the losses to pests increase by about 46%, 19% and 31% respectively when global heating reaches 2C, the scientists said.

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[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

We need the birds to eat more bugs!

Oh, right ... " ... a 2019 paper published in Science reported a cumulative population loss of nearly 3 billion birds in Canada and the U.S. since 1970." Source

Maybe our world LeaDeRs should have clamped down on O&G assholes 30 years ago when we still had the chance to stop global warming.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 9 points 1 week ago

And in 10 years food prices shoot up everybody is crying "who could have seen this coming!"

“Our ever simpler agricultural systems are vulnerable but are maintained by fungicides and pesticides, which is OK as long as they work,” Bebber said. “But we’ve got the evolution of pesticide resistance and we’ve got to think hard now about whether we want to use diversification as a strategy to help make our systems more resilient.”

Profit and efficiency say no to diversification and usually every time some policy is adjusted for this, we get a farmers driving their tractors through the capital in protest.