If GLOBAL WARMING intensifies (don't deny it is) will the crops fail and we'll end up eating each other???

Answer 1

For sure, global warming will reduce global crop production and a lot of countries will face economic problems.

Africa is always within that condition due terrible public administration and badly international help management. they do not build up new group of professionals and do pressure to political groups to improve general production, instead, they just help, like kids. They do no teach how to grow up.

Food production is always a matter of tecnology. Israel, in middle of a desert are producing everything within their special high tech farms. New kind of food are esy to produce and new kind of species will be used.

You can produce algaes within the ocean to be eaten. You can grow up other species. You can use microorganism to produce food (proteins), some kind of high proteic pate. Developed countries will put down international barriers and will buy food from countries in development.

Central os South America will not face so big changement facing global warming, due geografical conidtions. Huge areas will be harvestable in Russia and other areas put by side, like mongolia will receive international group to exploit (while common people just will suffer global crisis).

But before it, Economic groups will try to have maximum profit before goes to another country and settle another "strong" and "leader" coutnry.

Meanwhile economic group play chess with our lives, Scientists will still discussing about Mantis Sex and Politics will blame the devil and creat huggest worship sessions.

Answer 2

Um... science will come up with a non-soylent green based food product if this becomes cause for concern.

Global warming's not a problem. We probably are headed for an ice age, given histroy, but it will take thousands, maybe millions of years before it becomes a problem. People are concerned about global warming becuase industries are producing chemicals that harm the o-zone layer, causing more sun rays to hit the earth. Though the science behind this may be true, there is no cause for concern becuase the human effects on the ozone are insignificant. One volcano eruption probably causes more damage to the atmosphere than all cars in America over the span of a year. Besides, scientists say the o-zone is the healthiest it's been in a long time... and this is the industrial age!

Why are people afraid? Media hype caused by enviornmentalists. The theory is that the increased temperature will cause the ice caps to melt, causing the ocean to rise, and dramatically effecting the earth's land by flooding it. the o-zone's been in horrible shape long ago in history and this never happened, so why are people afraid now?

Answer 3

You are already eating humans, it is called a "doner kebab".

On a serious note, if global warming intesifies A LOT then the crops will surely fail, but I don't see that happening anytime soon. I believe the nearer it gets to happening, the more we will try to stop it - and therefore slow it down. We just need a slap in the face to realise the potential danger. I am more concerned about the melting of the ice caps personally. A global rise of just 3*c and the sea level could raise by 7 metres.

Answer 4

Before the crops fail from global warming, it's more likely that we will have asphalted over the entire world, building more glitzy shopping malls, housing additions, and parking lots than we'll really ever need. Once all the rich farmland is covered up with asphalt or concrete, farmers won't have anywhere to grow crops. And, farm land is where food comes from (contrary to those who believe food comes from a supermarket). If farmers can't grow crops, then there is no food. If there is no food, then we can't eat. If we can't eat, WE WILL DIE.

Perhaps cannibalism will become a popular alternative to starvation if there is no food available. But without food, we won't be able to procreate, so eventually even "human food' will be gone and WE WILL DIE. -RKO-

Answer 5

I think we can probably look to the famines that have recently occured in places like Ethiopia for the answer to that question. I never heard or read anything about the occurence of cannibalism. If it happened at all, it was not widespread, since so many people died of starvation.

I think you have to have an end in sight, to mentally justify eating someone else. Like the Donner party, waiting for winter to end, or the Andes plane crash survivors, waiting for rescue. With the kind of catastrophic scenario you're talking about, there probably wouldn't be an end in the foreseeable future. While there might be some people capable of preying on others for their own survival indefinitely, I imagine a steady diet of human flesh would not suffice for most.

In any case, we've been forewarned about the probable impacts of global warming. Rather than worrying about whether we taste like chicken, it's probably more constructive to do what you can to stop it.

Answer 6

Regular crops in many regions may indeed fail (if the crops don't adapt fast enough, or is not a resiliant strane to drout and what not).

I don't think we'll eat eachother (other then the psychos)
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I do think if it got that bad, we'd rely heavily on Hydroponics, & reuse the existing water we still have or find ways to get the water out of the air.
OR
we might not learn from our lessons, and we (the majority, or powerful) will rely on manmade things, like make a sinthetic food of some sort for people to live off of or something along those lines.

And besides only psycho's eat people!
B/c people can die form eating people. B/c there's so many desises, and if someone was to eat someone they would possibly get the defects of that other one through the blood (like genetic defects like they might get cancer or something). And again, it's gross, inhuman, & is bad for a human's health anyways! I mean HELLO heart attack, and HELLO AIDS / HIV duh!!! People who would even think about eating people are idiots (even if it is for short term servival).

I think the Q should be "will we end up eating bugs?".
B/c many types of bugs can live through really harsh condistions, and they reproduce like crazy...
People say the c0ckroach has been around b4 humans and will be around after humans are dead (IF humans die off).
That being said, then bugs like that maybe around for people who are that d@mn desporate to eat. Plus some people already eat bugs anyways. Ever hear of chocolate covered Ants?

Answer 7

While crops will fail, they will also tend to "migrate", to a point, as the conditions suitable to their growth will also move around the world as temperature distributions shift as a symptom of climate change (global warming). This may result in crop failure, when there is no longer a suitable place for them to grow. The issue then becomes one of economic as well as environmental stability.

Answer 8

For most of earth history the planet has been much warmer than it is today. Normal earth temperatures over the last billion years may be as much as 20 degrees Kelvin warmer than today with greenhouse gases at much higher levels. Life has thrived on the planet thoughout most of that history. Life on earth has always survived by eating each other.

Answer 9

If the weather gets warmer, we will just have to grow crops that are growing in warmer countries today. Today we have a large surplus in food production and we also have huge areas which could be used for food production that is now unused.

Answer 10

Nah cos we may have died from dehydration by that point, or possibly due to war to control whatever is left of the Earth's freshwater supply