2manyoranges
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picking up the environmental stress part....My friends work in food import /distribution and they tell me environmental stress is raising most food commodity prices fast.
Corporate greed often then raises profit on a rising price
- I think the joke Musk blue plaque wasn't suggesting he had a duty to feed the poor, but that he could afford to do it.
His greedy pseudo-green companies gobble up power and fill earth orbit with junk, radio noise and useless space tourists, and our streets with virtue signaling massive cars
This is exactly right.
There have been difficult seasons in the past - drought in the 80's etc - but the last few years have seen a sustained period of very different rain patterns in Europe.
https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/topics/in-depth/extreme-weather-floods-droughts-and-heatwaves
This has grossly affected yields:
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...imate-crisis-livelihood-extreme-weather-study
this is not scaremongering by journos, but based on good science:
https://www.ceh.ac.uk/press/scientists-predict-what-will-be-top-crops-2080-due-climate-change
...and the report quoted suggests that (a) adaptation is possible and (b) climate change is happening.
The problem for the modelling and for the UK farming industry is that there is little support for famers in making the change (Gov without warning just pulled the rug on the current batch of subsidies) and the current experience of disruption to the jet stream and decay in the AMOC means that we could have tremendously unstable weather, along with a trend of colder and drier. Unstable is really not good for managing a period of transition in crop species strategy.
I like many of the thoughts and comments which have been added to this thread. In fact they give me hope, since although there is not unanimity, there is careful consideration of evidence and clear expression of views. And that, for me is A Good Thing.
