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Re:Earth Overshoot Day by bryanlarsen on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @11:41AM (#31412330)
I'm saying that if food production drops 30%, millions will die, not billions.

If both food production and oil production drop at the same time, then we're screwed.

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Re:Earth Overshoot Day by marcosdumay on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @12:30PM (#31413053)
Thus, we better get over our dependency of oil before the next food disaster hits.

(A volcanic winter would be quite bad for solar too. I don't know how fast we can scale fission in a disaster scenario, but I think it's our best hope. We should keep improving our fission tech too.)

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Re:Earth Overshoot Day by bryanlarsen on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @12:33PM (#31413098)
A volcanic winter would only drop solar production 10% or so.
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