World’s farmers won’t be able to keep up with climate change

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1. People in the Western world are still living in a consumerist fantasy world, believing that nothing bad will ever happen to them.

   >[Wolfram Schlenker](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/wolfram-schlenker) at Harvard University says the conclusion that farming adaptations are unlikely to make up for crop losses due to climate change tallies with previous findings focused on specific regions. “The huge contribution of their study is they didn’t just focus on one country, but they compile this data from countries around the world,” he says.
   That global view reveals some interesting patterns. For instance, the researchers found that the largest projected crop losses don’t occur in low-income countries, but **in the relatively wealthy breadbaskets of the world**, such as the US Midwest and Europe. “They’re **not better adapted to it than poorer countries**,” says Schlenker.

   The chaos of the markets and the subsequent inequality don’t wake us up and make use change systems, and the uncertainty and instability of climate change won’t wake people up, unless it’s too late and it’s the worst-case scenario, but we will be pass time for civilized discussions and cooperation.

   >“The scary thing is, we just don’t know,” says Roberts. “There’s **incredible uncertainty**, and most of that is on the downside. Anything is possible, from no losses to **devastating losses that would cause mass starvation**. That should be humbling for people.”

2. Nothing new here, again. 😉
   This makes sense even.

   Anyway, this is also another item i keep telling people when they downplay the issues.

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