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Humans (on the most basic level) have a much better adaptations to survive hot climate than cold.
by Roark66 3y ago
Humans (on the most basic level) have a much better adaptations to survive hot climate than cold.
- wood_spirit 3y agoPerhaps the plight of humans may be more conditional by the climate’s impact on farming and food supply than on clothing.
- adrianN 3y agoIn a catastrophic climate change scenario Humans generally don't die because of heat, but because other humans throw bombs at them to get at their farmland.
- junofan 3y agoSeems a bit dangerous compared to planting something else and trading.
- tremon 3y agoIn that scenario, humans with barely enough farmland to feed themselves are going to trade food against non-edible crops. Then the traders will be bombed by the humans now starving because their food was taken away, and you have the same situation except more local.
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- wolverine876 3y agoNot all land will grow food. We've invested our food growing capital where it's grown throughout the history of agriculture (about 10,000 years).
- adrianN 3y agoGood luck trading for enough food when your former high yield farmland only allows for light goat herding or poverty crops now because the glaciers that you relied on are no longer there and your aquifers are empty.
- wolverine876 3y agoAlso malnutrition and thirst, lack of assets to provide things like health care, heat, and more.
- Roark66 3y agoI'll take that any day over 2km thick ice cover. The closes homo sapiens ever got to extinction was 120k years ago during the last ice age. Is changing climate a challenge? Of course it is, for every living being that got used to the status quo. Being desperate about it is the opposite of what we want to do as desperation leads to stupid decisions (geoengineering, rapid one sided deindustrialisation etc).
- wolverine876 3y agoHow are the consequences of an ice age related to current climate change? Instead of dismissing other ideas - what should we do?
- oceanplexian 3y agoThere there were a lot of scientists in the 70s and 80s predicting collapse of food production, who weren’t slightly wrong but spectacularly wrong. The last few decades has seen an exponential reduction in poverty, and the largest increase of food production in human history (It’s a statistical fact). To predict that will suddenly reverse is a heck of a bold claim.
- adrianN 3y agoIt's a bold claim that is also scientific consensus. See for example this summary of the IPCC report: https://time.com/6152615/ipcc-report-climate-change-agriculture/ https://time.com/6152615/ipcc-report-climate-change-agricult.... But I won't be able to convince you with that, since you probably already know it, but choose to think happy thoughts instead.