Access to fresh fruit, vegetables and many other foods could be dramatically limited due to climate change by 2050, according to a new report published in the medical journal the Lancet.
In the report, scientists from the U.S. and the U.K. predict a lack of access to nutritious foods, which could see severe decline in public health — and, in some cases, deaths.
“What we found was that climate change can be expected to lead to about half a million additional deaths worldwide in 2050, due to changes to diets and body weight,” said Marco Springmann, one of the report’s authors. He’s a researcher in the department of population health at the University of Oxford.
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