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There is no bet for you to take, but I hope you’ll find the time to think back to your foolishness once when we have resource wars and widespread famines due to simultaneous global breadbasket failure.

Interestingly rising global CO2 levels significantly boost crop production. Wonder how that will offset potentially more extreme weather.

All other things aside, it will also make food less nutritious:

> Research led by Sam Myers, Director of the Planetary Health Alliance at the Harvard Chan School, found that when food crops like wheat, corn, rice and soy are exposed to CO2 at levels predicted for 2050, the plants lose as much as 10% of their zinc, 5% of their iron, and 8% of their protein content.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/subtopics/climate-chan...

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