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I'm wondering, what's the projected circuit breaker that causes the system to collapse and people to change something if we don't do anything before? Crop yield

• notacoward 3y ago
  Could be starvation. Even though we're capable of producing more than enough food for everyone, the combination of sub-optimal eating habits, sub-optimal farming techniques, and comically inefficient/unfair distribution means that we don't. Between those factors and increasing population, even a small decrease in crop yields could cause unprecedented levels of famine. Could be war. War over food, war over water, war over water for growing food, war over living space as coasts get flooded or obliterated by storms, etc. Could be disease. There's plenty of evidence that climate change is causing diseases to spread (along with their animal hosts) where they hadn't before. If anyone thinks COVID was the last or worst pandemic we'll have to endure this century, they're fooling themselves. The true worst might not cause civilization to collapse entirely, but it sure will increase a lot of the tension already present. Most likely, it will be a combination of all of these. The four horsemen are all enjoying the race.