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Weird abundance problems. Should we get used to it?




The fail-safe answer is: absolutely not. Climate change is already leading to mass migrations and decreasing food security due to greater variance in floods and droughts, and heat waves and cold snaps. We should be doing all we can to holistically improve food security by:

- expand fresh water reservoir, flood control, reclamation, and RO water generation capacity

- increase diversity of crop cultivars because monoculture is a liability, e.g., Gros Michel banana

- increase geographic distribution of farming

- improve long-term food preservation technology

- increase strategic food storage capacity rather than relying entirely upon for-profit, just-in-time-delivery and inventory minimization cost-optimization

- cut net GHG emissions and gradually return to pre-industrial levels




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