One step closer to the Interstellar timeline.
One step closer to The Road timeline.
This will be what makes climate change ‘real’ for many people.
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.
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”.
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
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.
