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I think you might be overestimating the resilience of your food network. It's understandable, everything is currently set-up to insulate you from the origins of
by fooblitzky 7y ago
I think you might be overestimating the resilience of your food network. It's understandable, everything is currently set-up to insulate you from the origins of your food.
Plants, rainfall, and harvests are susceptible to changes in climate.
Globally, though, I'd be surprised if we could last a single year if every food crop failed. You can already see what this looks like in Africa and the Middle East - famine affects entire countries at a time. Imagine if there was a string of bad years - say 10 or 15.
As a kind-of related example, most of the US would starve within a week if there were no oil to power trucks. Our current globalized food production/transportation network is extremely fragile.