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I guarantee that climate-related food production and price issues are not going to be a rare occurrence.
by dougmwne 5y ago
I 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.