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Greenhouses and vertical farms would make the famine less severe; although our population is so high that it would get complicated fast
Microgreens and winter tomatoes aren't going to stave off famine.
There’s just a few years where this kind of research will be possible. I hope we can maximize our discoveries before the world loses most of its ice.
I kind of weep for the loss of oral and comprehensible physical histories in the Americas and Africa, since scholarship like this shows that one can combine those with unlikely natural records and scientific analysis to triangulate on remarkable narratives about our past.
I hear 1348 wasn't too great either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1348
Dying of respiratory or cardiac failure is horrifying enough, I just hope we never experience something like the plague on a large scale again.
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Because gradually injecting sulfur is the same as massive uncontrolled natural injections, right?
Who knows? Nobody, especially on a global scale, which is what they're suggesting.
And nothing prevents new volcanic explosions from doing this again. How would the northern world deal with this today? Not that well.
It might be even more bleak because we have 100X the population. I live near San Francisco and yesterday it rained more than usual which resulted in some highways literally shutting down and hours long traffic diversions. I have pretty low faith in us.
And nothing prevents new volcanic explosions from doing this again. How would the northern world deal with this today? Not that well.
We have electricity and insulation. We won’t starve. Will it suck? Absolutely.
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How many of these vertical farms do we have? How long do they take to build? What do they cost to run?
A global response on the scale of Covid to build vertical farms would reduce the severity of the famine dramatically. It would be expensive, but the alternative would be burning cities and food riots. I can hardly imagine the USA avoiding a civil war considering how divisive and hostile things already have gotten You can get hydroponics going fairly quickly, the bottleneck would be the supplies and supply chain — mat…