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Doubtful? Famine due to unusual climate circumstances is not unusual, and we are entering a new era of historically "unusual" climate circumstances (not to ment
by i_haz_rabies 6y ago
Doubtful? Famine due to unusual climate circumstances is not unusual, and we are entering a new era of historically "unusual" climate circumstances (not to mention the many other faucets of human-caused environmental collapse). Far from doubtful.
- airhead969 6y agoGreenhouses, climate-controlled vertical farming, and desalination. Easily doable.
- SllX 6y agoWithout a time horizon you can say anything about anything in the future. In the next two thousand years maybe we face several famines; but we’ll do what we have always done when food runs scarce; adapt, explore and kill. Cosmopolitan virtues will likely wither in that time. Even with climate change as a factor, we can lose a lot of our current yearly harvest and still have enough to eat. We can change our diets to match what is available to us to eat, and for all we know, even with the loss of some arable land, we gain access to land that was previously unusable due to the local climate being inhospitable to our crops. So, are we, or are we not, facing in the near term the pressures that these mice are facing that drive them to desperate action? Are we all members of the Donner Party in the future? Or is it just an interesting thought exercise to ask what we would do if we were faced with the same pressure?
- vagrantJin 6y agoYeah. Cosmopolitan values are pretty fragile they might as well be a lie. For one thing they need an absurd level of wealth to maintain without which they disappear and leave a vacuum that can only be filled with base instincts.