For Southern Africa, Climate Change Is Real As Prolonged Droughts Are Creating Food Shortages

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The United Nations reported that prolonged droughts in southern Africa have led to food shortages, which will impact 45 million people

ZOMBA, MALAWI - SEPTEMBER 11: Members of the Majawa family walk to their church in the village ofMulele, which lies in one of the areas most affected by drought, on September 11, 2016 in Zomba, Malawi. The drought has hurt the Majawa's harvest of maize and sunflowers, and without food aid his family would starve. Drought associated with the El Nino weather pattern has created famine throughout Southern Africa with over 60 million people dependent on food aid.

“We’ve had the worst drought in 35 years in central and western areas during the growing season,” said Margaret Malu, for the in Africa. “We must meet the pressing emergency food and nutrition needs of millions of people, but also invest in building the resilience of those threatened by ever more frequent and severe droughts, floods and storms.”

Six of the nine African countries hit by adverse weather are DR Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. And the WFP says that the hunger period will peak from January through March 2020, when 59% of rural households, or more than , temperatures in southern Africa could hit 5-6 degrees Celsius by century’s end based on global emissions. For context, the global community is trying to keep temperature increases to 2 degrees Celsius by mid-century.

 

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The UN has Munchausen Syndrome by proxy and loves to use children to make itself relevant

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All the military weapons the US sends to Africa should help get rid of some excess mouths to feed.

The drought is so fuckn deadly.

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