3 ms·
> The real disaster isn't rising sealevels (except in Bangladesh). Homes can be rebuilt. Its just a question of money. The real disaster is agricultural collaps
by fweespeech 10y ago
> The real disaster isn't rising sealevels (except in Bangladesh). Homes can be rebuilt. Its just a question of money. The real disaster is agricultural collapse in the tropics and subtropics.
A good chunk of arable land and aquifers will be affected by rising sea levels as well.
Really, our only hope is somehow all that land that is too cold to farm now...becomes more practical to farm. :/
- dharma1 10y agoJames Lovelock, the inventor of Electron Capture Detector, which he used to discover CFC's, and the person behind the Gaia theory, predicts that only Canada, Northern Europe and Siberia will be habitable in the later part of this century. www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/james-lovelock-the-prophet-20071101
- fweespeech 10y agoYes but its more than just habitability. Soil condition/quality as well as availability of water, etc. is important for farming.
- dharma1 10y agoVery true - there will be a limit to what size of a population can be sustained by farming within those northern areas. Whatever that number is, it's probably not 9 billion people