“Given today’s technology, food preservation and global shipping the only way anybody will starve is if governments want them to. “
That statement assumes the foresight to store food beyond normal consumption, the ability to grow food without the strong help of the sun and that shipping is unhindered as the economy falls apart and disease is rampant.
Other than that, I think you are on to something...
“That statement assumes the foresight to store food beyond normal consumption, the ability to grow food without the strong help of the sun and that shipping is unhindered as the economy falls apart and disease is rampant.”
As the temperature drops the growth zones will move towards the equator. Other crops can be adapted to grow in the new colder climates with shorter growing seasons. Areas that were jungle or desert will be made habitable and fruitful. And, we have genetic modification now. So, we can make cold adapted plants grow things that they couldn’t grow before.
The weather won’t make the economies disappear. They’ll just change. We’ll adapt. That is, if governments allow us to.
Change can actually be good. At least it isn’t always bad.
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Somebody correct my assumptions that the northern states, and most of the upper northern hemisphere, would be pretty unsuitable for agriculture. Would major agribusiness would need to move toward the equator? What about our southern most states? They seem to have been spared glaciers and such during previous ice ages.