Have we reached the tipping point into the cool zone?
we've been fucking telling them to stop using so much for years idk this kinda feels like a win if they start trying to make do with less/rethink how they go about it
how cool and silly and kooky that we put capitalists feeding everyone, huh
Society is always 9 missed meals away from collapse
Cereal production and shortages is heavily correlated with changes in modes of production
Fun Fact: Feudalism only really took off in regions with cereals that could be hoarded long-term. Can't control masses of people if you can't control massive amounts of food.
Besides maize, the western hemisphere didn't really have durable cereals which is why no individuals could ever hoard enough food to declare themselves a lord to any systemic degree.
I already forgot why I brought this up.
pesticides have pretty bad long term effects on agriculture and climate so reconing with this now is probably better than dealing with the long term affects of continued heavy pesticide use
yeah but there are non pesticide ways of dealing with insects and the way we are currently doing it hugely damages the ecosystem including polinators vital to farming
It's just that the farming practices aren't going to change in the next 2 months and this shortage won't even exist next year, so this is just gonna destroy a ton of short term food capacity during the goddamned Ukraine war and massive heat waves hitting North America
I'm not, I'm saying in 2 to 4 months this crop is gonna need harvesting, and it's gonna be fucked up already.
That would definitely be the cool zone, because you can't feed 8 billion with organic farming methods and capitalist overproduction/waste.
Is it that we can't feed 8 billion people, or that we can't feed 8 billion people plus a fuckload of livestock? :vegan-seitan:
Once Siberia thaws and we start seeing the Arctic become a source of stormfront activity, the Russian north is going to become the heartland of Eurasia. I hope they don't cock up their agricultural sector as badly as we did our own.
They'll be fine, farmers have been raking it in with food prices being so high. Mostly the banks will be upset that their returns arent as high.
Farmers sell wholesale price. It’s only the people who are in the middle who are getting rich.
Nah, you can contract at higher prices if you pay alittle extra upfront. Have to borrow from the bank to do so, leveraging is basically the only option these days, but you can make a bunch of money right now if you are farming. The issue is if you suffer like two bad seasons in a row you go under. The banks and the middle men just are the only ones not taking any risk (aside from purely monetary).
Maybe this year's failed wheat crop will have lessened demand? :yea:
Anecdotally: I live out in farm country and this summer has seemed way buggier than even last years so far, wonder if that's related
