This is a slightly abbreviated re-post of an original release, Global Water Stress Index 2011,
by Maplecroft, with bold for emphasis and additional links added by ecoSanity.

Note: A lot of important info in the video above, but ecoSanity.org does not necessarily support the specific 'solutions' it poses.
 

Section 1: Summary: Food/agriculture & the climate emergency
Section 2: Videos: Food/agriculture & the climate emergency
Section 3: Videos: Food production/factory farming
Section 4: Videos: Genetic modification (GMO - Genetically modified organisms)
Section 5: Essential resources: Articles, blogs, websites, reports

Below is a slightly abbreviated re-post of an essential article, Meet Generation Hot, by Mark Hertsgaard, in reference to his forthcoming book, Hot: Living Through the Next 50 Years on Earth.

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My daughter Chiara, age five, is a member. So is my goddaughter Emily, age twenty-two. So are the thousands of Pakistani children now suffering after record monsoon rains left 20% of their country -- an area the size of Great Britain -- under water.

In fact, every child on earth born after June 23, 1988 belongs to what I call Generation Hot. This generation includes some two billion young people, all of whom have grown up under global warming and are fated to spend the rest of their lives confronting its mounting impacts.

For Generation Hot, the brutal summer of 2010 is not an anomaly; it's the new normal.

In our last post, we passed along the shocking news that there's been a 40% decline (die-off) in phytoplankton (the base life of all life) since 1950 -- now accelerating at a rate of about 1% per year(!) -- because of the heating impacts of global warming.

Australia, Feb. 7, 2009 -- After a decade-long state of climate change-induced drought and days of a heat wave that sweltered to a near unbearable peak of 49ºC/120ºF, 100 km/60 mph winds helped more than 400 wildfires set large swaths of countryside ablaze in what has become the worst -- and deadliest -- natural disaster in a century.  People burned to death in futile attempts to save their homes, or in their cars as they tried to flee.  Others could only watch on as entire towns were laid waste.