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It seems this is the future warning for a lot of things. Coffee, bananas, cocoa are all crops I have heard this about. But if places like Canada warm up by a bi
by 14 8y ago
It seems this is the future warning for a lot of things. Coffee, bananas, cocoa are all crops I have heard this about. But if places like Canada warm up by a bit and the season extend just a bit, would that not make them prime conditions for growing a lot of these things? Perhaps demand will bring on new supply.
- Udik 8y agoThat's my reasoning as well. A lot of climate change research seems to assume that the only variable is climate, while everything else has to stay the same: in this case cultivated varieties, cultivation techniques, production countries, economic incentives to cultivation, and so on. The world is constantly adapting to changes, often in complex and unexpected ways. I have next to zero faith in the ability of any researcher to correctly predict and rule out the miriad of ways we can adapt to such changes, before a real decrease in supply happens.