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by aaron695 2122 days ago
> mass starvation

Due to my hyperbole it's a hard argument that if 100 years happens in one year it'll all be ok.

But yields from crops will improve in some areas and weaken in others

https://www.nato.int/docu/review/articles/2011/02/18/food-se...

So there will be no mass starvation long term, after this super climate change year.

But I see no reason in the USA and Europe if they know what will happen with climate in a year, all the big farms won't adapt within that year.

To put all that change into a year will hammer the poor, but they will adapt within years and I'd see no reason the richer countries couldn't prop them up during the change over.

It's a tough hypothetical. The Netherlands probably couldn't do 100 years of climate change in a year for their dykes... I'm not sure. Maybe they could.

The coronavirus is also a big deal, you'll feel it for decades. What worries about it, is lost time. We are destroying time doing nothing during C19. Climate change 100 years -> 1 year, you'd lost a lot of stuff, but things would plod along.