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What if new tropical paradises means the current tropical paradises become uninhabitable, creating more forced migrations that make the syrian refugee crisis lo

What if new tropical paradises means the current tropical paradises become uninhabitable, creating more forced migrations that make the syrian refugee crisis look like a quiet day on the canadian border, and the lands that become your "tropical paradise" actually are the grain belts of the world, which can no longer grow all the food a continuously expanding global population demands? Look at all the flooding in the midwest this year -- despite dams on every major river, we've still had record-breaking field inundation and crop failure. Is that the new normal paradise you're describing?

Skunkleton 7y ago
> What if new tropical paradises means the current tropical paradises become uninhabitable. And what if the shift happens so fast there isnt enough time for all of the tropical plant life to migrate with the temperature changes?
zaroth 7y ago
Wheat prices don’t seem to be particular affected; https://www.macrotrends.net/2534/wheat-prices-historical-chart-data https://www.macrotrends.net/2534/wheat-prices-historical-cha...
- briantakita 7y ago
  We also have financialization of markets, which allows manipulation. The USDA has also made some controversial assessments with readjustments of the corn production forecast. Currently, 31 million corn acres are deemed unplanted this year. One can read the trends to see the writing on the wall... https://www.agweb.com/article/crunch-time-31-million-corn-acres-uplanted-naa-anna-lisa-laca/ https://www.agweb.com/article/crunch-time-31-million-corn-ac... Gold & Silver have also been kept artificially low & there is incoming indictments of market rigging. I add this as an example of how financialization distorts the pricing information flow. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/merrill-lynch-fined-by-doj-cftc-for-spoofing-in-precious-metals-futures-2019-06-25 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/merrill-lynch-fined-by-doj...

Skunkleton 7y ago

> What if new tropical paradises means the current tropical paradises become uninhabitable. And what if the shift happens so fast there isnt enough time for all of the tropical plant life to migrate with the temperature changes?

zaroth 7y ago

Wheat prices don’t seem to be particular affected; https://www.macrotrends.net/2534/wheat-prices-historical-chart-data https://www.macrotrends.net/2534/wheat-prices-historical-cha...

briantakita 7y ago
We also have financialization of markets, which allows manipulation. The USDA has also made some controversial assessments with readjustments of the corn production forecast. Currently, 31 million corn acres are deemed unplanted this year. One can read the trends to see the writing on the wall... https://www.agweb.com/article/crunch-time-31-million-corn-acres-uplanted-naa-anna-lisa-laca/ https://www.agweb.com/article/crunch-time-31-million-corn-ac... Gold & Silver have also been kept artificially low & there is incoming indictments of market rigging. I add this as an example of how financialization distorts the pricing information flow. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/merrill-lynch-fined-by-doj-cftc-for-spoofing-in-precious-metals-futures-2019-06-25 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/merrill-lynch-fined-by-doj...