• Flowgang@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    I worked in plant physiology for a while; my understanding is that a lot of our common crops, while adapted for hot climates, are already at their thermal tolerance limits. It’ll just takes a bad series of extreme events to wipe out a crop, which are becoming increasingly common

    • kinther@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I have always said that a bad crop year will wake up many to the problems we face as a civilization. We spend so much time in the inner world of the internet and computers that we have forgotten the outer world we exist in.

      • @kinther @doom_and_gloom

        Heh, city-dwellers have generally been oblivious to how food gets on their tables for much, much longer than the public had the internet.

        When I was a kid in the 70s, it was a commonplace in calls to modernize education to decry “memorizing countries’ imports and exports” as an archaic waste of time. And there was none of that in the enlightened education I received.

        Of course now I find myself endlessly fascinated by facts like “Australia is/was the biggest seller of coal to China” and “Ukraine provides a third of the wheat bought by African countries”.

  • keardap@lemmy.selfhost.quest
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    1 year ago

    If it hits now in full swing, it will mark limits to growth as too optimistic, and that ends with population collapse by the end of the decade.