Thanks for the question! Unfortunately the question of how well equipped we are to survive the coming changes is pretty complex and somewhat outside of our specific expertise (we’ve been focusing more on the changes themselves). Understanding this involves not just scientific knowledge from a range of disciplines but also knowledge from social sciences about how societies will respond, what’s possible in terms of economics and policy, and so on.

We agree with you that the food question is a really important one. We’re also not experts on agriculture, but there are some other researchers and research institutes doing great work on this. Off the top of our heads, one prominent recent study is that of Gerten et al. (2020): they argue that it should in principle be possible to transform the global food system to feed 10 billion people in away that’s relatively globally sustainable. Whether this is going to be possible in practice, of course, is another matter.