More than four billion people could be overweight by 2050, with 1.5 billion of them obese, if the current global dietary trend towards processed foods continues, a first-of-its-kind study predicted Wednesday.
Warning of a health and environmental crisis of “mind-blowing magnitude,” experts from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) said that global food demand would leap 50% by mid-century, pushing past Earth’s capacity to sustain nature.
Food production already hoovers up three-quarters of the world’s freshwater and one-third of its land — and accounts for up to a third of greenhouse gas emissions.
Providing a long-term overview of changing global eating…
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