Climate lies explained in 1 chart
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I didn't say it was going to end civilization. Frankly, thanks to interconnected economies, the collapse of civilizations is less likely than it was in those previous periods. Climate Change has played a role in other earlier civilizations which couldn't respond to climactic shifts, but thankfully technology allows us to respond much faster.
However, that doesn't mean that we won't continue to see price shocks, rural displacement, rural poverty, the depopulation of some cities, and refugee crises. Highly centralized systems don't respond well to shocks. That's the point.
Climate Change is a bigger economic threat than Globalism is, and the Leftist systems that controlled the industrial heartland of America turned into The Rust Belt as a result of Leftist Globalism. Cleveland's population declined by 60%. Similar things happened to Detroit, Chicago, Flint, Ann Arbor, Youngstown and more.
Climate Change will have economic and political knock-on effects that will be destabalizing to our current system. You want to deal with the consequences of Climate Change? One of them is finishing the fucking border wall.
The changing climate (which isn't changing nearly as much as everybody seems to think) isn't a threat to anything. What IS a huge threat is the massive over-reaction the various governments are engaged in which WILL cause insane logistical bottlenecks and disrupt the market and availability of necessary goods through sheer centrally-planned incompetency. The market is SOOOO powerful when left alone that even IF the climate where fluctuation crazily, we would be fine.
It's absolutely a threat to food prices, farmers, and border security.
Government intervention and incompetence is what is threatening those things. If the assholes up top would stop fucking with the farmers, we wouldn't need to worry about the food supply at all.
Only to a degree. People need food all the time, but you have to grow it long in advance. As supply dwindles from certain areas, demand will absolutely spike, but no new supply will be able to be made until the following year. Additionally, farmers who can't buy different land and move equipment (again, even more massive capital investment) will just add more and more chemicals and fertilizer to try and cope with worsening soil and weather conditions which will cause bigger problems for the local environment.
Now, it's true that the global food supply won't crash or anything, but I'm talking about protecting our farmers.