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This is the place for discussing the potential collapse of modern civilization and the environment.

Collapse, in this context, refers to the significant loss of an established level or complexity towards a much simpler state. It can occur differently within many areas, orderly or chaotically, and be willing or unwilling. It does not necessarily imply human extinction or a singular, global event. Although, the longer the duration, the more it resembles a ‘decline’ instead of collapse.

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Exponential increases in high-temperature extremes in North America - Scientific Reports (www.nature.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

you can expect similar with crop yields and other weather thats powered by these extremes.

this is what will deplete the global yearly carryover grain stocks when we get more clusters of back to back bad years

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

If this turns out to be an extra-hot summer as the long term models are showing, and also droughty, then that will make 4 summers in a row (in my area, which is agrarian) of bad years. It will not take long to seriously damage food supplies at the rate this is going. I haven't looked into what conditions have been like in the other breadbasket areas like the Ukraine/S. Russia, the Cone of South America, or the fertile parts of East/South Asia.