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While there might not be a new ice age caused by temperatures decreasing in Europe, this will reduce the growing season for certain crops, increase energy usage
by StudentStuff 9y ago
While there might not be a new ice age caused by temperatures decreasing in Europe, this will reduce the growing season for certain crops, increase energy usage, and potentially set the stage for conflict. In the distant past for most of us (WW2 & prior) Europe was a powder keg, with wars and turmoil. Only in the past few decades has the continent acted as more of a singular entity, though with Brexit and potentially Grexit this seems to be unraveling.
- wallace_f 9y ago>Potentially set the stage for conflict. I sincerely hope this idea becomes politically incorrect. There is huge potential for conflict with resources either becoming scarcer, or at least industry and agriculture needing to at least reorganize. Further, Russia is probably the only country to significantly gain from it. However, I don't want a "holy war" over global warming because that won't solve global warming. It will just create war, just as all our wars after WWII have done nothing but that.
- swombat 9y agoI read StudentStuff’s post as implying it will set the stage for conflict over resources, not over ideology.
- wallace_f 9y agoIn today's world, it will always be about resources, and painted with ideology, no matter how ridiculous that ideology. Iraq and Afghanistan, for example, painted with a War on Terror, but people in the USA are orders of magnitude more likely to die from police shootings, sugar, lack of access to healthcare, etc. The ideology comes in when selling the war to the 99%. The resources are for the 1%. That's why we should stop speaking of conflict over global warming. It won't solve global warming, and it won't help most people.