climate & food insecurity

[aerohead]

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/a-...food-security/
Some issues which food 'producers' are facing:
* Avian cholera ( fulmars,murres, crested auklets
* Bartonella bacterium ( fleas/rodents- human organ damage
* borrelia burgdorferi ( Lyme disease ) black-legged tick, white-tailed deer, white-footed mouse
* Brucella spp. bacteria ( fur, leather, meat )
* crop failure due to pumped-aquifer failure, due to recharge failure, due to megadrought
* crop failure due to dessication
* crop failure due to drought-related irrigation canal failure
* crop failure due to flooding ( extreme rain events )
* crop failure due to fungus ( Pst Yellow rust, wheat , Stem-rust ( wheat ))
* crop failure due to hail (high-precipitation super cells )
* crop failure due to pest infestation ( Spodoptera frugi perda, Fall Armyworm,larvae )
* crop losses due to lack of pollinators
* crop losses due to leaf litter losses
* crop losses due to ocean inundation and soil salination
* crop failure due to photosynthesipause, @ 104-F stomata closure
* crop failure due to river losses ( loss of mountain glaciers )
* crop loss due to soil erosion
* crop losses due to soil microbe losses
* crop failure due to wildfires
* cattle losses due to loss of pasture
* cattle losses due to loss of drinking water
* coral algae expulsion
* coral bleaching
* coral die-off
* Distemper virus ( seals, otter )
* drought instead of rain
* fly strike disease, sheep
* 75% of fruit production threatened ( antioxidants )
* Hantavirus ( rodent feces/urine- nepropathia epidemica hemorrhagic fever ( can be lethal - bank voles ))
* Heliobacter pylori bacteria ( human stomach cancer )
* ice-fishing threatened
* insect hatch timing shift
* lake fishing
* lungworm ( musk oxen )
* non-krill eaters eat krill-eaters
* ocean pH, carbonic acid, acidification extinction of all 'shelled' marine life
* ocean reef overfishing
* Parapoxvirus ( fur, leather, meat )
* Polar bear starve as without sea ice, cannot access ring seal, bearded seal
* rain instead of snow
* river fishing
* sea-ice algae ( beginning of marine food chain ) decline as sea ice declines precipitates krill decline ( 99% of Antarctic lifeforms, Commercial trawlers, pharmaceuticals, Omega-3 dietary supplements, tropical fish food, Alaskan King Crab, Arctic cod, baleen whales, frozen fish-sticks, McDonald's fish sandwich, squid, penguin, seal, humans, farm-raised salmon, Antarctic silverfish ( collapsed ), skuas, crabeater seal, leopard seal, Blue whale, Minke whale , Polar bear )
* shoreline fishing
* snow instead of ice
* tick-borne encephalitis
* Toxoplasma gondi ( beluga whales )
* Typhoid ( poultry )
* warming oceans cyanobacteria displace fish and phytoplankton, block solar depth penetration to deeper-dwelling organisms
* zoonotic diseases: Ebola ( bushmeat ), Nipah Virus ( pigs ) [ fruit bat droppings ]
* In 2021, Russia lost 40% of the wheat harvest, suspended exports, sending food prices through the roof, precipitating the Arab Spring.
* In 2018, El Salvador lost 90% of their coffee crop to leaf rust, something that previously didn't exist there.
* In 2021, the Champagne region of France lost their entire grape harvest, in vineyards operating since 1700.

[oil pan 4]

Just more fear mongering trying to blame social economic changes on climate change. Good job trying to spin a completely man made economic collapse made worse by the lab grown pandemic as climate change.

[freebeard]

I read the first sentence of each paragraph for a while but didn't finish.

The conclusion is inarguable.

Many scientists and policymakers fear that the very survival of the human species is now at risk. The draft IPCC report warns: “Life on Earth can recover from a drastic climate shift by evolving into new species and creating new ecosystems. Humans cannot.”

The headline puts it in perspective "A world of hurt: 2021 climate disasters raise alarm over food security". Permaculture will persist after the fertilizers corporate farming employs become Unobtainium.

[redpoint5]

I argue that not only can humans recover from drastic climate shift, they are most capable to do so of all the species.

Evidence for the non-survival of the human species will be a declining population. I suspect that will be more due to cultural preference than naturally imposed limitations.

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

I argue that not only can humans recover from drastic climate shift, they are most capable to do so of all the species.

Evidence for the non-survival of the human species will be a declining population. I suspect that will be more due to cultural preference than naturally imposed limitations.

Well, you can watch it right now in pastoral Kenya. They've just lost 90% of their cattle and they're killing each other.
If Madagascar isn't rescued right now, you can watch it there too.

[redpoint5]

Kenya population still growing at 2.3% at last reading. That's quite a large growth rate compared to US zero percent (excluding immigration).

[aerohead]

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ke...itarian-crisis

[freebeard]

Why not both?

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

I argue that not only can humans recover from drastic climate shift, they are most capable to do so of all the species.

Evidence for the non-survival of the human species will be a declining population. I suspect that will be more due to cultural preference than naturally imposed limitations.

Your argument is noted.
There's a very high probability that things will not unfold as you imagine.
The required calculus must include things as they are. I've no experience so far, that your calculus actually reflects reality, only a deficit of crucial information.
Otherwise we'd know it from your argument.
'Principle of Undetermination'
'Postmodernist Epistomology'
'Unchained Foucauldian politics'
'Ontological'

[freebeard]

'Principle of Undetermination'
'Postmodernist Epistomology'
'Unchained Foucauldian politics'
'Ontological'

Are you just making things up?

Humankind has persisted through (round numbers: 200,000/12,000) Cataclysms ....so far.