8 Ways Climate Change Isn't Messing Around

8. Agriculture Takes A Hit

So we've done a bit about the weather, very British and all, but here is where we start to look and some of those pesky horsemen of the apocalypse.

One of the most basic things of every one of the 7 billion people currently on the planet need to do is eat food. Like, every day.

Up until and sort of including now, the bounty of Earth has been moulded to and shaped by the delicate balance of the Earth's natural systems. However, start screwing with the systems and everything tends to go down the pan PDQ.

Something as innocuous as the rains shifting by a couple of weeks can have a knock on effect to the blooming of plants, the life cycles of pollinators, fish spawning, bird migration, harvest cycles...I could go on.

And this is before we get to the sweeping skidmark of trouble that could turn our most arable lands into arid wastelands. Not only could this cause widespread famine, but also it's trusty sidekick, war.

Currently, a lot of the world's wealth lies in its most fertile and abundant lands that have the good fortune to be able to provide us all with strawberries, grains and delicious cows. However, a shift in the Earth's climate could cause those fertile bands to pick up their toys and leave for more northern climes. This does mean that countries that are currently large blocks of ice might actually benefit from a bit of global warming as the tundra melts into verdant grassland.

Where are these bread baskets of the future? Why, Russia and China of course - two countries that are historically not awesome at playing nice with the West and also not super-duper set up for that kind of economy.

So now that the rich farmland of Europe, Africa and America have dried up, there are food shortages. Our economy stutters as the entire system of import and export is turned on its head, prices rise, people get extremely f**cking hangry.

And when people are hangry en masse, bad things happen. Like, bad riot, corruption and death shaped things.