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Slowly, global warming will take its toll. There won't be one big disaster, one big crash leading to global famine, but crops failing more and more, constantly,
by GeoAtreides 1y ago
Slowly, global warming will take its toll. There won't be one big disaster, one big crash leading to global famine, but crops failing more and more, constantly, removing first the luxuries (cacao, olives, fruits, etc) and then the staples.
- jauntywundrkind 1y agoAnd other non-food related slow-catastrophes. From William Gibson's The Peripheral, on The Jackpot: > nothing you could really call a nuclear war. Just everything else, tangled in the changing climate: droughts, water shortages, crop failures, honeybees gone like they almost were now, collapse of other keystone species, every last alpha predator gone, antibiotics doing even less than they already did, diseases that were never quite the one big pandemic but big enough to be historic events in themselves.
- blipvert 1y agoLikely it will mirror Hemingway’s quote about how someone went bankrupt: Gradually, then suddenly.
- DengistKhan 1y agoDon't underestimate how much they're willing to stick with cash crops knowing that you're starving.
- spwa4 1y agoWhy? If there's one positive it's that global warming is giving us vastly increased amounts of farmland, and in the north and the south (the most productive countries on the planet) Worldwide even. This seems to me unlikely to lead to famine. We'll need to adapt, because farmland is moving, but we'll have a lot more food, not less.