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CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

That’s not what that seems to say at all. It doesn’t even look like it says “if we do nothing, we can’t grow these crops anymore”. It seems to be specifically about stratospheric aerosol injection (a specific geoengineering technique that we haven’t even committed to trying as yet), and suggests that if you use it to keep global temperatures stable, there can still be changes in where these crops can grow because changes to things like rainfall and humidity. I’ve not read the entire thing but from a glance at it’s conclusions, their simulations suggest that the crops would remain economically important to their growing regions under all their simulations, just with the viable amount that can be grown and the specific areas for doing it changed ler region, and that using SAI to offset warming doesn’t simply result in the same yields as not having the warming would have the way one might otherwise expect.

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SculptusPoe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Thank you. We need to be aware of climate change, but crying wolf and false interpretation of the science isn’t the way to get people on board.

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Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
yeah it’s not as severe as the meme says, but I think it’s a tad more severe than you’re making it sound 😅

Climate change is affecting growing conditions across the globe. Natural climate variability may exacerbate the impact of increasing temperature and shifting precipitation patterns, leading to large interannual variations in yields, potentially resulting in revenue loss.

large variations in yields for the average person effectively means it’ll get way more expensive to buy, as farmers who can’t afford a bad yield will go bankrupt when they have one and will have to sell thier farms, and others will switch to a more stable crop reducing supply…

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- CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Oh it wasnt my intention to make it sound like climate change doesnt negatively impact anything, but “these things get more expensive” is a very different thing than “these crops are going extinct and theres nothing that can be done about it” the way that headline seems to imply.
  
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  - Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    If it’s too expensive for the average person to buy it might as well be extinct as far as they’re concerned 😅
    
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