Disclaimer: I lurk /r/collapse and work in fintech, so maybe I’m biased.
I’ve read every IPCC report in the last seven years and a great deal of other papers on the sides of “Climate change will be worse/not as bad as the IPCC forecasts” and I’ve gradually come to the conclusion that whenever a non-batshit person articulates their view of the worst-case scenario, they have something like this to say:
> Wildfires will eat up large swathes of land and up to thousands of homes a year, thousands will die in heatwaves, rivers will run dry, megastorms will destroy up to thousands of homes a year from flooding and mudslides, sea levels will rise four or five metres and I guess kinda something something crop productivity maybe.
This article has a lot to say about farmers struggling, but like as far as I can tell the entire field of climate journalism and academia (except maybe Gaupp, et al) it has very little to say about the societal effects of poor harvests. There are real risks of famine, **here in the UK**, by the end of this decade.
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Disclaimer: I lurk /r/collapse and work in fintech, so maybe I’m biased.
I’ve read every IPCC report in the last seven years and a great deal of other papers on the sides of “Climate change will be worse/not as bad as the IPCC forecasts” and I’ve gradually come to the conclusion that whenever a non-batshit person articulates their view of the worst-case scenario, they have something like this to say:
> Wildfires will eat up large swathes of land and up to thousands of homes a year, thousands will die in heatwaves, rivers will run dry, megastorms will destroy up to thousands of homes a year from flooding and mudslides, sea levels will rise four or five metres and I guess kinda something something crop productivity maybe.
This article has a lot to say about farmers struggling, but like as far as I can tell the entire field of climate journalism and academia (except maybe Gaupp, et al) it has very little to say about the societal effects of poor harvests. There are real risks of famine, **here in the UK**, by the end of this decade.