UN: El Niño Could Push 49M More Into Hunger by 2027
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Climate-concerned narrative
The El Niño barreling toward the world's most vulnerable populations is staggering in scale, and so will its harms if action is not urgently taken. It is of the utmost importance, therefore, for countries to work with the WFP and partners to avert catastrophe, as every dollar spent now will save up to seven in damages later.
Climate-skeptic narrative
El Niño's reputation as a global hunger apocalypse is wildly overstated. For 50 years, it's been the weather system that cried wolf, with agricultural productivity and open trade consistently outpacing its damage. The real food security threat isn't a Pacific weather cycle but deliberate policy failures that are far more controllable and far more dangerous.
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