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Hopefully it doesn't get as bad as 2010 which affected the global price of grain and some argue it helped trigger the Arab Spring revolutions. https://en.wikip
by pier25 5y ago
Hopefully it doesn't get as bad as 2010 which affected the global price of grain and some argue it helped trigger the Arab Spring revolutions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Russian_wildfires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Russian_wildfires
https://www.americansecurityproject.org/climate-change-the-arab-spring-and-food-prices/ https://www.americansecurityproject.org/climate-change-the-a...
- dougmwne 5y agoI guarantee that climate-related food production and price issues are not going to be a rare occurrence.
- paganel 5y agoThey have been for some time, present-day Sicily, Libya and Tunisia used to be the bread-basket of the Romans. Climate change took care of that.
- redisman 5y agoWe haven't even really had a extreme global weather event strong enough to destroy a large portion of the calories on the field before they're ready to harvest. The PNW "heat dome" of a few days already killed some more sensitive agricultural plants. Things are going to get a lot more chaotic in the next few decades.
- snovv_crash 5y agoThe PNW heat dome was accompanied by cold weather in Europe. I've spoken to farmers who say that roughly 50% of their crops were destroyed by hail. Of course this is region-specific, but it's not just heat we need to worry about.
- vmception 5y agoTime to start my Fantasy draft picks for next North African dictators