Gardening in the Future

[Plinsc]

I just read an article (way too many political adds on it to post a link) about how we are under the worst food crisis in modern history due to severe weather. Wheat is about 20% in the good to excellent rating due to drought in the Midwest, Everything in Cali due to drought followed by flooding, Fla oranges are at about 30% production, ect.
It’s a great time to consider a greenhouse or high hoop with a means for irrigation.

 

[deluxestogie]

Most individuals (especially kids) have little notion of how to make food: grow veggies, fruit, animals. Those of us who do some of that sort of stuff already, would be hard pressed to accomplish it in the absence of complex infrastructure (mail, seed sellers, electricity, public water supply, ready-cut lumber, the Internet, etc.). My teenage grandkids have no interest in learning how to make food.

Without jumping into the morass of why our weather is different than we remember from years past, I will say that we must recognize that weather patterns around the world are now less predictable, more extreme, and more wildly variable. Modern civilization is built upon predictability, relative stability, and fragile supply chains. The elastic in our socks no longer keeps them up.

Today (first full moon after the vernal equinox) is the start of the Jewish holiday of Passover. It is a cultural remembrance of events related in the book of Exodus (written centuries after the fact). More specifically, it is a cultural remembrance of a snapshot taken during the (simultaneous) late Bronze Age collapse of nearly all Mediterranean and Middle Eastern civilizations around the year 1180 BCE (about 3000 years ago). It would take another a half-millennium for civilization to once again stabilize from that wreckage.

Bob

 

[skychaser]

I just read an article (way too many political adds on it to post a link) about how we are under the worst food crisis in modern history due to severe weather.

I agree. We are possibly facing the worst food crisis in modern history, but I disagree with the reasoning why. Weather is only a small part of the picture. The main reason is that we currently have some of the worst "leadership" the world has ever seen. This is primarily a man made crisis. And the fact that the article you read has "way too many political adds" might be a good reason to stop reading there.

Without jumping into the morass of why our weather is different than we remember from years past, I will say that we must recognize that weather patterns around the world are now less predictable, more extreme, and more wildly variable.

Totally disagree. Nothing has really changed. The 60's, 70's and 80's had more severe weather than the past 30 years have had. I could post numerous links showing this but you can do your own due diligence. If you do a search of the actual statistics on of hurricanes, tornado's, droughts, floods, etc, you can see it for yourself. But here is one that shows all the doom and gloom predictions of the past 100 years and how they all missed the mark by miles.

As Climate Experts Warn of Looming Catastrophe, Past Bad Predictions Hurt Their Message

www.theepochtimes.com

Modern civilization is built upon predictability, relative stability, and fragile supply chains.

On this I totally agree. And the current problems we have are all of our own doing.

Bob, I know you read phys.org. So do I. Or rather I used too. Have you noticed how absolutely biased their articles have become over the past two years on certain subjects? Especially on the human caused climate change". It used to be an excellent science site which offered discussions from both sides of the coin. Not any more. It has become highly politicized. As a firm believer in true science, it's sad to see what this site has become now.