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Related: About this forumThe End of Pasta: what will we eat when wheat won’t grow
"A world without pasta seems inconceivable. Mac-and-cheese-loving children across the United States would howl in protest. Italy might suffer a cultural heart attack. Social unrest could explode in northern China, where noodles are the main staple.
But if humans want to keep eating pasta, we will have to take much more aggressive action against global warming. Pasta is made from wheat, and a large, growing body of scientific studies and real-world observations suggest that wheat will be hit especially hard as temperatures rise and storms and drought intensify in the years ahead.
Hurricane Sandys recent devastation of New York and neighboring states reminded Americans of what Hurricane Katrina demonstrated in 2005: global warming makes weather more extreme, and extreme weather can be extremely dangerous. But flooding coastlines arent our only worry. Climate change is also imperiling the very foundation of human existence: our ability to feed ourselves."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/12/09/bakken-oil-boom-and-climate-change-threaten-the-future-of-pasta.html
WCGreen
(45,558 posts)LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)Warpy
(111,277 posts)It's trickier than wheat, very fussy about cooking time, but it's every bit as good.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)Has anyone else noticed how tight this corner we're painting ourselves into is becoming?
NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)Even if the cornucopiasts' utopia does come true and man develops techno-domination (replacing nature with viable engineered systems), everything we use to eat, drink and breathe may not just come from a corporation, but will be patented by them as well. Would we be free from famine, or eternally in bondage?
I don't think we have anything to worry about, regarding that extreme coming true though.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)And those of us with "collapse craving" are the moderates...
Speck Tater
(10,618 posts)NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)This will be the largest issue of the 21st century in my opinion. The next "Why didn't we see it coming?!?" crisis.
I've started looking at some ALR lots above the 45th in nearby towns due to this.
Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)Thanks. We are looking for a good retirement place up north. We live in Fl and every where I look seems to have issues now or will probably have them by the time we are ready.
NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)The article says "today (2012) land prices are among the highest in North America", but in comparison to non-ALR land of the same size in the same area, I find it to be more affordable (by 100%-200% in my town), as it cannot be developed (you can put a house on it, but not a condo).