Michael Le Page

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580 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3d ago

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The World, the Universe and Us · Climate Crisis Is Triggering Global Food Shortages - New Predictions Are Devastating · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

So it's just it's quite limited.

Yeah, so these are crops that are grown in quite small areas and often in sort of distinct geographical areas.

So when you have...

extremes hitting them, it has a big impact on the sort of the global yields.

These sort of crops such as wheat and maize and soy, they're much more widely grown.

So they're more insulated on a global level at the moment.

But obviously, as extremes ramp up and drought ramps up, then you can start to get into the situation where multiple areas are having crop failures.

And then you have a big global problem.

I mean, we saw that to some extent with the heat wave in Russia.

I think it was 2009 or 2011, I forget the exact year.

But they pushed up wheat prices across the world because of the big shortfalls there.

And that, obviously, that was a new pathogen coming in.

I don't think we can link that to climate change, but we do know that as the world gets warmer, the impacts of pests are going to get much greater.

So, for instance, if you think there are some pests that will multiply over several generations during a growing season,

So if you can have, you know, five or six generations instead of two or three, if you think about what that means in terms of exponential growth and the numbers of pests you're having to deal with, you know, it's a huge difference that those longer growing seasons are a huge difference.

And then, of course, you know, their pests moving into new areas and so on and so on.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

This study is just sort of looking at what's happened historically and projecting that forward.

Yeah.

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