The stability of global food systems hinges on a handful of critical “breadbasket” regions—the U.S. Midwest, Canada’s Prairie Provinces, the Indo-Gangetic Plain, and Mediterranean Europ…
It made me rethink exactly what collapse would look like on a societal level:
The “little” klaxons are constantly blaring, but now I think we will get less “proper” warning signs than I had expected before we’re in over our heads. The places we expect to starve will starve, and then rather suddenly the richer countries will joining them too. Not much of an in-between phase.
Everything is generally (and “properly”) fucked up right now, but even so I’m not sure that most of us really appreciate what we’ve got. I know I can still find it a challenge sometimes.
My mind went to that paper, too.
It made me rethink exactly what collapse would look like on a societal level:
The “little” klaxons are constantly blaring, but now I think we will get less “proper” warning signs than I had expected before we’re in over our heads. The places we expect to starve will starve, and then rather suddenly the richer countries will joining them too. Not much of an in-between phase.
Everything is generally (and “properly”) fucked up right now, but even so I’m not sure that most of us really appreciate what we’ve got. I know I can still find it a challenge sometimes.