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Grocery prices will skyrocket due to escalating food and water scarcity. Traditional tropic and subtropic fruits and crops will become a rarity on supermarket shelves as farmers face deadly heat and high humidity that restrict their outdoor work. Small-scale farmers across Africa, Asia, and South America, who once contributed one-third of the world’s food supply, will be devastated by unpredictable weather patterns that threaten harvests. As a result, staggering numbers of people may slip into hunger and famine.