Discussion

Projected warming will exceed the long-term thermal limits of rice cultivation

bcjdjsndon: So what they're basically saying is global warming will open up whole new areas to rice cultivation offering jobs and economic prosperity to the areas given the massive price Asia will then be willing to pay due to lack of local supply

kadoban: Dead people don't buy much rice, invaded people don't grow much rice.What you're describing is a recipe for a few people to get rich while everybody else starves and dies in wars.

7e: Rice will be genetically modified for higher temperatures, almost certainly.

isodev: No, they’re saying you will starve to death unless you’re rich.

tonyedgecombe: Until it can’t be.

panny: Selectively breeding rice will fix that faster than climate changes.https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/rice-yields?time=earliest...Did you know it was impossible to grow rice in Hokkaido Japan. No one successfully grew rice there until the 1850s. Now Hokkaido produces 7.5% of the rice in Japan.

surgical_fire: The last to starve will be the first to suffocate.