LIFESCI 2X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Crop Yield, Net Impact, Business Casual
14 Jul 2018
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Impacts of climate change on social dynamics and associated feedbacks. Climate change as a driver of conflicts and population migration: climate trends. Overall global temp increase of 5 deg celsius: effects of climate change on social dynamics. Difficult to map out the effects on social dynamics. All of these have health impacts, but it is difficult to predict. Indirect and direct effects lead to impacts on our health. Military or political conflicts would be a form of change. There is reduced jobs since there is less food. The ability of a society to be itself properly. The overall economy in many parts of the world will be impacted (source of conflict causing people to move: climate change and the limits of crops. We are going to be testing the limits of crops with increasing temp. After 30 deg celsius some crops can not grow. Increase risk for pests to ruin the crops.
