"Could" lol... It's already impacting rice yields; probably many others.
this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2023
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Inflation is a euphemism for corporate fuckery.
Also, cover for the already well under way destruction of food chains and supply lines.
We are already at DEFCON fucked.
Timing is tough to have narrow certainty on
2050?! Fucking liars. The 2030's is more accurate.
That's relatively unlikely still.
What do you mean?
And then there are pandemics among crops to worry about:
“Never again should a major cultivated species be molded into such uniformity that it is so universally vulnerable to attack by a pathogen,” wrote plant pathologist Arnold John Ullstrup in a review of the matter published in 1972.
And yet, today, genetic uniformity is one of the main features of most large-scale agricultural systems, leading some scientists to warn that conditions are ripe for more major outbreaks of plant disease.
“I think we have all the conditions for a pandemic in agricultural systems to occur,” said agricologist Miguel Altieri, a professor emeritus from the University of California, Berkeley. Hunger and economic hardship would likely ensue.
s/2050/like 2 years, maybe 5-10 at absolute most/
I mean I have no particular expertise but it definitely seems like things are accelerating
There could be some local disaster where you are tomorrow, but it's unlikely. This is similar: it's low-probabilty in any given year
famine is man-made.