There is, we can't afford it: Hurricane-proof greenhouses for all crops everywhere.
We can definitely afford it. We can cut out the livestock trophic level for a huge reduction in need. We're eating a lot of basic hardy crops. Are we talking about a scenario where this happened suddenly? If it's just climate change we will have so much time, we're not just going to wake up and be in an inferno. Will we be underprepared, will there be unfortunate decisions and conflicts, yes, but I think Covid was evidence that a lot of people are willing to come together for humanity and that was't ever an existential threat, deaths were low and largely already immunocompromised people. We proactively manufactured a crisis to avoid the real crisis.
How? Like managing COVID, only for food and sex this time? OMG! You'll have civil war in every city, town and village, which will cripple production even further => faster collapse.
This is where it's like...I can't prove you wrong, but what evidence is there of that? The evidence we have from Covid and previous epidemics and wars, is that people didn't descend into chaos. You can point to brutal savagery in all cases but by and large society pitches in for society and manages to triumph over bad actors. "What happens if it's worse," sure, but there's just not a lot of basis to assume this asymptotic anomaly that doesn't have any true priors (have parts of civilization broken down or gone backwards or gone through tragic periods? 100%).
I don't belive that government reserves anywhere in the world are enough for a really bad year if it ever happens globally. It doesn't have to be a global hurricane or meteor hit. It's enough for floods in some places, drought someplace else, plant pathogen somwhere else, etc. A combination of factors, just all in the same year.
Sure, some people come together in a crisis, but new generations are more "me first" than older people. I belive that somewhere there is threshold where people forget their altruism, the snowball starts rolling and then nothing can stop it.
There is, we can't afford it: Hurricane-proof greenhouses for all crops everywhere.
We can definitely afford it. We can cut out the livestock trophic level for a huge reduction in need. We're eating a lot of basic hardy crops. Are we talking about a scenario where this happened suddenly? If it's just climate change we will have so much time, we're not just going to wake up and be in an inferno. Will we be underprepared, will there be unfortunate decisions and conflicts, yes, but I think Covid was evidence that a lot of people are willing to come together for humanity and that was't ever an existential threat, deaths were low and largely already immunocompromised people. We proactively manufactured a crisis to avoid the real crisis.
How? Like managing COVID, only for food and sex this time? OMG! You'll have civil war in every city, town and village, which will cripple production even further => faster collapse.
This is where it's like...I can't prove you wrong, but what evidence is there of that? The evidence we have from Covid and previous epidemics and wars, is that people didn't descend into chaos. You can point to brutal savagery in all cases but by and large society pitches in for society and manages to triumph over bad actors. "What happens if it's worse," sure, but there's just not a lot of basis to assume this asymptotic anomaly that doesn't have any true priors (have parts of civilization broken down or gone backwards or gone through tragic periods? 100%).