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Worst case scenario is that we eat food grown in greenhouses and use desalinated water. It's horrendously more expensive, but not out of reach of consumers in
by bryanlarsen 2y ago
Worst case scenario is that we eat food grown in greenhouses and use desalinated water. It's horrendously more expensive, but not out of reach of consumers in developed countries.
People don't understand food economics. We use approximately all the arable land in the world to grow food because that's the cheapest way to grow enough food. If we had less usable farm land we won't grow less food, we'll use more intensive methods to grow the same amount of food at higher prices.
Climate change is going to be horrible enough without this nonsense. If we lose 90% of species, that's going to be terrible. The human species will be part of the 10% that survives.
- BriggyDwiggs42 2y agoSounds like you’re counting on being in the 10%.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoYes, I'm human and am above the $2/day poverty line, so I'm in the 10%.
- BriggyDwiggs42 2y agoSheesh, real stuff.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoReports like https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/22/catastrophic-great-barrier-reef-hit-by-its-most-widespread-coral-bleaching-study-finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/22/catastro... are very real. Those are the types of reasons to fight climate change. The original post is BS. It's a distraction and so wrong it helps climate deniers more than it helps the cause.
- BriggyDwiggs42 2y agoHow so? It misunderstood 1.5C, but otherwise it seemed largely factual to my untrained eye.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoThe headline.
- BriggyDwiggs42 2y agoI thought he argued pretty well for it. I’d have been happy to see a headline catastrophizing about the banking system before 2008; isn’t it down to whether the arguments support it?