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Will agriculture go on easily though? If you look at just two effects, increased variability of the weather and loss of arable land because of rising sea levels
by plesner 8y ago
Will agriculture go on easily though? If you look at just two effects, increased variability of the weather and loss of arable land because of rising sea levels, how do those alone not lead to lower output and greater insecurity?
- Brometheus 8y agoAgriculture in Europe for vegetables is already concentrated in Spain's greenhouses...
- l_camacho84 8y agoWe cannot forget that this agriculture is based on fertilizers that are a finite resource.
- CompelTechnic 8y agoConsidering how much food we overproduce already (about half of the food grown in the world is wasted), any slow-moving disaster has plenty of time for people to adapt, just from stockpiled production capacity. This is even considering that a large amount of this capacity is devoted to feeding livestock, producing ethanol, and producing low-yield, expensive, high labor input luxury crops. The likelihood of a climate event destroying more than 50% of the world's yield in one growing season is so scant as to be unimaginable. If you ever find yourself living in a world where almost all arable land is devoted specifically to the most calorie-dense staple crops, with almost no meat being produced, and maximum technology utilization to increase yield (greenhouses, drip irrigation, etc) you can worry. We are eons away from that point.