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This is what the climate disaster is going to look like in most places: No single apocalyptic catastrophe, just more extreme weather, poorer harvests, fewer fis
by ForHackernews 7y ago
This is what the climate disaster is going to look like in most places: No single apocalyptic catastrophe, just more extreme weather, poorer harvests, fewer fish. Things are only going to keep getting worse, and it's an open question what secondary effects this will have on human society.
Sustained droughts and famines have toppled civilizations in the past.
- bayareanative 7y agoYeap. Tragedy of the Commons / highly-diffused externalities. And a combination of slow and rapid food price increases such that the eventual sole focus of nearly everyone's existence will be mass distractions from insanely unaffordable food, mass starvation and potential genocides. If a modern person wants food security, they better have a climate-controlled, well-defended and discrete area to grow enough for their family... otherwise X.X.