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> projected a 1–29% cereal price increase in 2050 I agree that everything in this article could and probably will happen. However, how could even a 29% increas
by whall6 5y ago
> projected a 1–29% cereal price increase in 2050
I agree that everything in this article could and probably will happen. However, how could even a 29% increase in cereal prices lead to a societal collapse? I didn’t see anything that would lead to societal collapse.
Humans adapt. They always have. Is it not possible that we could perhaps be made better as a species because of climate change?
- bjoli 5y ago30% is not much for us, but for countries where agriculture is 60% of GDP amore capricious weather might devestate the economy. For those people climate change is a threat multiplier. Everything gets worse and more insecure in those regions. Big climate in short times has historically been very bad for the ecosystem in the short term. Something like the Triassic-jurassic climate shift (due to, presumably, volcanic activity) led to one of the larger extinction events in the history of the planet, killing something like 75% of all species. I am notnsaying that is where we are heading, but even something remotely close to that will most certainly be devestating for society as we know it. If there is something that will make humanity better it is overcoming this. Not hoping that whoever makes it through will be a part of a better species.
- bjoli 5y agoto continue on this: the late triassic had a temperature about 3°c above modern temperatures. The rise into the jurassic period is believed to be somewhere between 3-7°C.