Climate Change Means Global Famine
1,136 ViewsGreenfyre has a good write-up on why climate change means global famine.
Anyone who imagines that with climate change we will simply shift agriculture towards the poles probably does not even have house plants, much less a garden, and certainly knows little or nothing about agriculture or climate change.
Put simply, these soils are total crap for food production. The entire region where the delusional are hoping to grow all of our food is not good for food production based on soil alone, never mind other factors.
You can clearly see that we are supposedly talking about moving agriculture from the good to excellent soils to poor and very poor.
Even if there were no other challenges (and there are plenty, as have been and will be discussed) we would have to massively expand the area under cultivation since the land would simply not be as productive.
Such expansion means the cost per unit of production and distribution (ie food price) goes way up, the environmental impact goes way up, and there still isn’t enough land to match current levels of production. Climate Change and Famine
Greenfyre has a nice write up on why this whole idea of moving our farm lands north is self-defeating. I suspect that the fall-back position that many secretly harbor about climate change just got nuked.
See also Understanding Why Climate Change Means Global Famine
February 21st, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Rereading the David Price article in your previous post.
We are going to overshoot. It’s natural. There is no leadership or common will to do otherwise.
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:48 am
We will experience the great die off. There is no doubt in my mind now. Peak oil is here if not coming soon. The current methods of distributing and growing food - relying heavily on industrial farming techniques and petroleum - will soon end.
I have recently joined a group whose purpose is to develop community gardens. We now have two gardens we’re working on and hope to create 12 this year. Even so, as Admin has warned, time is ticking.
Those that are not growing at least some part of their food better get on the bus. And to Greenfyre’s point, learning how to grow your own food should illustrate the value of compost and soil to survival.
February 25th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
No where was the length of daylight mentioned that governs when plants go to seed. This is something I have had problems with in my northern garden.