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Paper: "Wilderness areas under threat from global redistribution of agriculture" (2023) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.09.013 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cu
by RetroTechie 3y ago
Paper:
"Wilderness areas under threat from global redistribution of agriculture" (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.09.013 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.09.013
Key points:
# Climate change may require agricultural areas to shift towards the poles.
# This may cause wilderness areas to be turned into farmland (and thus, ecosystem destruction & loss of biodiversity).
# Existing farmland will see a reduced variety of crops.