mousepad wrote:Plantagenet wrote:IMHO there's a good chance we are going to see large scale crop failures and then major famine as the climate continues to warm and change.
There's too many people as is, so I take your point as good news.
By itself it possibly would be good news.
But its unlikely that people and even entire countries will sit and do nothing as their populations starve.
We just don't know what the knock-on effects will be.
For instance, If crop failures occur in central America, will it lead to millions of illegal aliens flooding into the US?---Oh wait that is already happening....
Or if drought affects Africa and causes crop failures will it drive immigrants to Europe---Oh wait that is already happening
So what will happen if droughts and famines get even worse?
How about if US farmland in the midwest becomes unfarmable due to drought, will the US move to take over Canadian farmland that is farther north....
Of if land in China is hit with global warming and crop failure, will China try to take over Siberia just to its north.....
Or if crop failures occur in India and Pakistan, will it lead to a nuclear exchange?
Those kinds of events wouldn't be as welcome, IMHO.
Cheers!