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In the worst case scenario weather patterns will shift enough that large scale agriculture will fail in parts of the world that are currently productive. Heat
by GVIrish 7y ago
In the worst case scenario weather patterns will shift enough that large scale agriculture will fail in parts of the world that are currently productive.
Heat waves, floods, and drought can and will destroy entire crops. Furthermore, sea level rise and stronger storms will destroy ports and transportation infrastructure, making it harder and more expensive to transport crops.
- Erlich_Bachman 7y agoAren't you talking about global warming? I fail to see how the biodiversity loss itself directly would affect such climate changes.
- jyounker 7y agoI do think the poster was conflating some aspects of climate change, but life has surprising effects on weather and local climate. Desertification and dust storms are both possible outcomes of biodiversity loss. There's also a growing body of evidence that precipitation is driven partially by bacteria. (See the following article from Nature: https://www.nature.com/news/2008/080228/full/news.2008.632.html https://www.nature.com/news/2008/080228/full/news.2008.632.h...)
- GVIrish 7y agoWhat I'm saying is that it would be very, very difficult to mitigate catastrophic insect loss by switching consumption to primarily vegetables. Climate change is here, and is going to get worse. Losing pollinators and the collapse of ecosystems would be painfully disruptive on a large scale, and climate change will make it extremely difficult for humanity to adapt to it.