Climate change is already showing up in the cost of living | "As temperatures climb above 77 degrees crop yields begin to fall, harvests suffer and food prices can spike for at least a year"

Posted by Acrobatic-Lynx-5018@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 8 comments

Published recently on LA Times, this article covers the growing relationship between the soaring Cost of Living and the climate crisis. While the COL is fed by many different crises, the climate is certainly a large part of the equation and things are getting worse very quickly. This part from the article is why this seems collapse related:

> During the winter months, and in some cooler places such as Canada and Norway, prices may actually fall as warmer weather expands growing seasons, or lowers demand for heating. But in most of the world, prices are expected to rise more than they fall.

> “We have enough data to understand that this is an important macroeconomic risk,” Marotta says. “The mandate is to monitor it.”

> Experts say these spikes could make food unaffordable for the poor — and drive political change. Consumers buy groceries so regularly that large price changes can quickly become a source of political dissatisfaction, sparking unrest such as the 2010-11 Arab Spring or the political fallout after a 2024 “rice crisis” in Japan.

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K33P4D@reddit

77'F is 25'C

Hitting upwards of 35'C will lead to a decrease in nutrient availability, while 40'C and above leads to soil desertification and loss of habitat.

We'll adapt with insect based protein farming and drought tolerant agriculture practices.

Whatever the earth will throw at us, we will survive as a species,
but if humans conspire to kill each other out of fear, that's the final end game.

Acrobatic-Lynx-5018@reddit (OP)

I just recently found a youtube channel of a nuclear physics guy that reacts and debunks videos involving nuclear power & weapons.

In many of his reaction videos he makes it very clear that humanity could launch all warheads simultaneously and it still wouldn't wipe us out. I tend to believe him because I have heard the same from other nuclear experts. Humans are fragile creatures but it still takes a LOT to wipeout an entire species. Like a lot...

Humans are resilient as a species thriving under extreme conditions throughout our shared history, until and unless other humans themselves pose a threat to our survival.

“If you pick up a textbook and you look up the bit on inflation, inflation is too much money chasing too few goods. There’s no textbook that says, ‘The climate’s cooking and we’re running out of stuff,’” says Mark Blyth, who runs Brown University’s Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance. “It isn’t taught that way. It generally isn’t thought about that way. Now people may be beginning to realize this.”

daviddjg0033@reddit

Sooner than expected. Climate was chocolate, cinnamon and rice everything good