Decline of Species That Pollinate Poses a Threat to Global Food Supply

Re:Decline of Species That Pollinate Poses a Threat to Globa... by gutnor on Friday February 26, 2016 @07:57AM (#11181112)

Most of the western nations are nicely isolated from the consequences of climate and environmental changes. If you look at the map of the region that are expected to suffer from the consequences of Global Warming, you will notice that the western world, again, is a lot safer.

I used to be a lot more cynic before, but in practice, the level of awareness and empathy for climate and environmental issues is surprisingly high compared to the actual effect it has on us. The pressure of green agenda is increasing all over the western world, and I'm sure that in 20 years we will look back to those days with discuss.

The only problem is if that's going to be too late or not.

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Re:Decline of Species That Pollinate Poses a Threat to Globa... by marcosdumay on Friday February 26, 2016 @10:06AM (#11181704)

What maps are those? And they include things like bee species extinction?

I've seen some people claiming that global warming will make the extreme North have a flourishing agriculture revolution, with enough productivity to compensate the loss of the tropical regions. Those people ignore both how to read a map, and that plants need sunlight to grow. Also, they ignore every single consequence that isn't plain linear, globally constant warming. To be short, they are a joke. I hope you are not talking about those.

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Re:Decline of Species That Pollinate Poses a Threat to Globa... by gutnor on Friday February 26, 2016 @01:57PM (#11183238)

That actually reinforced my point: the green movement in the western world is disproportionally strong compared to the actual consequences perceived today, and the expected consequences from the optimistic projections people believe in.

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