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> It will keep reducing food supply The global food supply is increasing: * See production numbers for key crops - all are still increasing. * See famine and

• TeMPOraL 5y ago
  Yeah, it's increasing, because we're strip-mining the soil. It won't last. I'll counter your points with two of mine: * See the problem of soil depletion. * Consider that crops are temperature-sensitive, and continued warming of the planet will be turning currently food-rich areas into zones where crops cannot be grown.
  • dnautics 5y ago
    > Consider that crops are temperature-sensitive, and continued warming of the planet will be turning currently food-rich areas into zones where crops cannot be grown. This is probably the opposite of what is likely to happen, warmth is likely to enrich the food productivity of more northerly countries which tend to be politically more stable and have less distribution and corruption problems, resulting in more net food production, not less. > See the problem of soil depletion. Not related to the carbon dioxide issue. If you poison the carbon dioxide issue with unrelated or poorly-thought out assertations, you risk discrediting it.
    • me_me_me 5y ago
      >This is probably the opposite of what is likely to happen, warmth is likely to enrich the food productivity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertification Have you seen the size of Africa? You are literally a character from futurama proposing to drop a giant ice cube into sea to cool it down.