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Frightens me to think of the impact this is going to have on agricultural production over the next ten years. In cooler countries, there's sometimes benefits t
by gravelc 7y ago
Frightens me to think of the impact this is going to have on agricultural production over the next ten years. In cooler countries, there's sometimes benefits to warmer seasons, though biotic stresses like more insects / fungal diseases tend to dampen that.
In hotter countries (many of which are developing), abiotic and biotic stresses can easily combine with bad weather events to wipe out an entire region's production. The political instability that this can and likely will cause is the greatest short-term climate change issue in my opinion. I really don't see how it can be avoided, given trans-national institutions which may have helped buffer these impacts are also at their lowest ebb since WW2.
- pojzon 7y agoClimate change migrations will be indeed very hard to solve. Either we will drop nationalism completely in the name of a single human goverment or we are going to perish (not in 10y ofcourse). Current order of power and capitalism has to die. Or we will die.
- gravelc 7y agoI highly doubt many people want to drop nationalism completely (I don't). If however agencies like the UN can no longer raise a peacekeeping force to stop conflict spreading, that becomes a serious issue. Climate change is the trigger, but our tendencies for war are what'll bring the disaster when climate change really kicks in.