Join Paul Beckwith, Regina Valdez and Dr. Peter Carter as they discuss the challenges we face as a result of increasing water scarcity and food shortages caused by climate change.

This video was recorded in the Durdle Door Press Conference room at COP26 on Nov. 6, 2021, and was first published on this channel on January 5, 2022.

Items discussed include the following:
- Percentage of water on the planet that is potable
- San Joaquin Valley in California, which produces 12% of US agricultural output, is a desert
- Amount of water needed to produce almonds
- Watering crops with the use of aquifers
- Connection between drought, pumping water & land subsidence
- Conflict in California between farmers & individuals due to the politics of water management
- Increasing risk of synchronous global breadbasket failure
- Changes in the Jet Stream
- Food system collapse
- Regional droughts & heatwaves leading to crop failures
- By 2050, there could be a huge gap between the food that is required & food production
- Increasing frequency of droughts
- The proportion of the global population that is experiencing prolonged severe drought is increasing every year
- Conflicts due to water scarcity in Syria, India & Pakistan
- The Water cycle
- Tipping points in the climate system that exacerbate food & water shortages

Links:

- The San Joaquin Desert of California: Ecologically Misunderstood and Overlooked
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232690837_The_San_Joaquin_Desert_of_California_Ecologically_Misunderstood_and_Overlooked

- Land Subsidence in the San Joaquin Valley
https://www.watereducation.org/foundation-event/land-subsidence-san-joaquin-valley

- Changing risks of simultaneous global breadbasket failure - Franziska Gaupp et al.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337843113_Changing_risks_of_simultaneous_global_breadbasket_failure

- Newly Identified Jet-Stream Pattern Could Imperil Global Food Supplies
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/eye-of-the-storm/newly-identified-jet-stream-pattern-could-imperil-global-food-supplies/

- Synchronized failure of global crop production - Zia Mehrabi et al.
https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/facultyresearchandpublications/52383/items/1.0378869

- Climate Change Risk Assessment 2021
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/09/climate-change-risk-assessment-2021

- Special Report: Global Warming of 1.5 C
https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/

- State of Climate Services Report
https://public.wmo.int/en/our-mandate/climate/state-of-climate-services-report

- Water resources across Europe - confronting water scarcity and drought
https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/water-resources-across-europe

- Man announces he will quit drinking by 2050
https://www.theshovel.com.au/2021/10/26/man-announces-he-will-quit-drinking-by-2050/

- Dune
https://www.amazon.ca/Dune-Movie-Tie-Frank-Herbert/dp/0593438361/ref=sr_1_1?crid=8ZMVTRXWZD6X&keywords=Dune+movie&qid=1641319504&s=books&sprefix=dune+movie%2Cstripbooks%2C88&sr=1-1

Panelists:
Dr. Peter Carter - MD, Expert IPCC Reviewer and the director of the Climate Emergency Institute

Paul Beckwith - Climate Systems Scientist. Professor at the University of Ottawa's in the Paleoclimatology Laboratory as well as Carleton University

Regina Valdez - Program Director, Climate Reality Project, NYC. GreenFaith Fellow and LEED Green Associate

Video Production:
The UNFCCC’s COP26 Media Crew in the Durdle Door Press Conference Room.

Charles Gregoire - Electrical Engineer, Webmaster and IT prime for FacingFuture.Earth & the Climate Emergency Forum; Climate Reality Leader

Heidi Brault - Video production and website assistant, organizer and convener, BA (Psychology), metadata technician, COP26 team lead for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum; Climate Reality Leader

Our Website: https://climateemergencyforum.org/

Thanks to the following organizations for making this program possible:
- Buddhist Tzu-Chi Foundation
- Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development
- International Society of Ecological Economics

Attributions Background Music:
- Title: Through the City II
- Author: Crowander
- Source: Free Music Archive
- License: CC BY-NC 4.0

Image and Video: https://climateemergencyforum.org/assets/attributions/2022-01-05-food-and-water-insecurity.html