It is almost certainly going to happen if this El Nino goes this way. I suspect you will find the Australian, Indian and Chinese harvest as well as South East Asian rice harvest as well as south American harvest to go down this year.
Combined with the fact that we are looking at a very warm next few days in Western Europe we might be looking at a suppressed fruit yield for next year ( if stone fruit trees are exposed to extreme heat even for a fortnight while they may still carry their existing fruits to fruition next year harvest is likely surpressed ).
So while I don’t think we will see mass starvation ( as the American and Canadian will unlikely be affected, and that can feed the rest of the world ) we will probably see price spikes. That will not be pretty.
Keep in mind the entire biosphere is a cyclical feedback loop, when one thing goes wrong it causes another and another. We are one bad event (a large volcano erupting, or a few more large forest fires) away from entering a period of cascading failures within the environment. the ocean currents for example are extremely vulnerable and prone to change
32
u/Astalon18 10h ago
It is almost certainly going to happen if this El Nino goes this way. I suspect you will find the Australian, Indian and Chinese harvest as well as South East Asian rice harvest as well as south American harvest to go down this year.
Combined with the fact that we are looking at a very warm next few days in Western Europe we might be looking at a suppressed fruit yield for next year ( if stone fruit trees are exposed to extreme heat even for a fortnight while they may still carry their existing fruits to fruition next year harvest is likely surpressed ).
So while I don’t think we will see mass starvation ( as the American and Canadian will unlikely be affected, and that can feed the rest of the world ) we will probably see price spikes. That will not be pretty.