New research exposes an underestimated risk of simultaneous global food supply shocks due to climate change.
    • kinther@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I have always said that a bad crop year will wake up many to the problems we face as a civilization. We spend so much time in the inner world of the internet and computers that we have forgotten the outer world we exist in.

  • Flowgang@reddthat.comEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I worked in plant physiology for a while; my understanding is that a lot of our common crops, while adapted for hot climates, are already at their thermal tolerance limits. It’ll just takes a bad series of extreme events to wipe out a crop, which are becoming increasingly common