Even in the worst situations, like I said, as long as we can create energy, then no that situation is far unlikely for crop production. We have great technology already existing to handle that. Only better will be developed in time as well....
I strongly believe that we will not be set back by climate change, in fact I think it will spur an innovative age and result in a boom of more technology.
Also merging with intelligent systems may one day eliminate the need for crops all together as our energy source.
My position, naive? No, it is optimistic that humans will push to innovate and continue the evolution of technology, while also not worrying about a changing environment, whatever may come of it. Then we will build through space, we are at the beginning moments (last 50ish years) of space exploration and expansion.
Think 1000 years from now, the "climate change" worries of the 2000s will be viewed as primitive worry. So in the long run, we are either dead or this is viewed as primitive.
You're talking about two completely different time scales though. Climate is going to be a disaster in <100 years. We can't make a planet viable in <200 (and that's assuming massive increases in tech).
Problem is that lots of people are going to die. People that don't have to. People that wouldn't have if we acted sooner. That's what people are worried about.
Will the human species survive? Yes. Will lots of people die? Also yes. I'd rather it not come down to it, especially since it didn't have to be this way.
Let me repeat that. It didn't have to be this way.
I strongly believe that we will not be set back by climate change, in fact I think it will spur an innovative age and result in a boom of more technology.
Also merging with intelligent systems may one day eliminate the need for crops all together as our energy source.
My position, naive? No, it is optimistic that humans will push to innovate and continue the evolution of technology, while also not worrying about a changing environment, whatever may come of it. Then we will build through space, we are at the beginning moments (last 50ish years) of space exploration and expansion.
Think 1000 years from now, the "climate change" worries of the 2000s will be viewed as primitive worry. So in the long run, we are either dead or this is viewed as primitive.