Permanent Drought

A study published in Nature Climate Change "predicts that aridification would emerge over about 20 - 30 percent of the world's land surface by the time the global mean temperature change reaches 2ºC".

The risks increasingly point toward catastrophe. Jason Moore and Raj Patel:

Regardless of what humans decide to do, the twenty-first century will be a time of “abrupt and irreversible” changes in the web of life.