There’s too many people in this world to say “I’m just going to…”
Beans, start talking about beans
The amount of excess food will go way down and the price will go up, which will mostly affect third world countries. A lot of people will starve at the beginning.
Couple this with clean water scarcity that will exasperate diseases and the human population will drop toward sustainable numbers.Now, you’re trying to say that’s what would happen should there be this massive shortage (there is, but typically people online don’t explore the failsafes and contingencies that are at our disposal), or are you straight up trying to naturalize an ecofascist futurity here?
Then Sally Struthers will ask you to donate “the price of a daily cup of coffee” and 1/1000 people will start giving $2000 per year to feed the hungry…
There’s not such a massive difference between where we are now and where we need to be to disconnect from fossil fuels
- More meals will be vegetarian
- Food selection will be more seasonal and local
- More people will work from home or take public transit or bike
- More people will have kitchen gardens
- More farmers will use permaculture techniques to reduce input fertilizer needs
- More humanure will be collected and used as fertilizer
- More solar panels will produce more power for home heat pumps to keep buildings comfortable
- More farmers will have electric tractors and farm batteries
Matt Damon found a way to make fertilizer on Mars.
Was going to say: methane and fertilizer both semi-abundant from natural sources, just need to scale back the industrial over-use of them.
Might have to go vegan and reduce the amount of resources needed to support a person to a sustainable level. Scary stuff
Probably gonna be a lot of days where I warm rooms with the space heaters rather than run the boiler looking at the cost of fuel. Tbh the super El Niño might be a blessing in disguise for many folks in colder climates this year. Drive a lot less (my kind admin transferred me to 3 minutes from my house) and cut down on non-essentials. Teaching the kids about waste, eating all our leftovers, etc.
Don’t be so sure of the heat from the el niño keeping y’all warm during winter. It destabilizes the jet streams around the poles and that makes the super cold air from the poles advance much further south than usual, with huge shifts on temperature when they quickly pass over the land. This last winter in the southern hemisphere had a lot of cold fronts that broke records, with heat waves jumping in between, making it hell for those living there (ask me how I know)
Starve
Competition to secure critical resources is one of the major driving factors in conflict. So we will probably a lot more wars breaking out and some borders shifting. Especially with the cost of war being lower than ever.
Governments around the world will need to increase taxes and borrow then spend to keep people employed and afloat. A lot of places were in a bad spot before so idk what they’ll do. Im not enjoying living in such interesting times thats for sure.
So all the stuff that comes out from the butt? With so many giant assholes in the government we clearly don’t need to worry about that 😅
Complain online.
And the stickers, don’t forget the stickers
who is “we”? as of now, there’s still oil being extracted and fertilizer being produced, just a bit less of it. if you live in a western country you don’t have to worry too much about it, except higher prices of food and everything that gets transported. if you’re a subsistence farmer in a place like bangladesh then you’re to some degree fucked
We can make fuel from air using the Fischer-Tropsch Process. It’s basically the “bad guy reaction” that countries use when the world cuts them out of the oil supply. Like Germany during ww2.
But for a more hopeful take. Maybe we will be less reliant on gas. And there’s plenty of stuff we can use as fertilizer
Germany made synthetic fuels from coal during WW2, not air.
Synthesizing CH-Chains from air is painfully energy-inefficient. Now that we have good electric motors its smarter to use that energy to power them directly.
The poor parts of the world with lacking electrical infrastructure who also couldn’t afford ““e-fuels”” to replace gasoline would have a pretty hard transition.
What we lack is the rare earth minerals for electricity storage. We’re going to have to war a bit for those.
Sodium-ion batteries use either no or much less rare earth metals and are particularly suited to stationary energy storage.
Watch the oceans and waterways heal a little before finding a new way to ruin them.
As soon as the war is over we have to stop all international ships that have been stuck there, they will otherwise act as super spreaders for invasive ocean species
Everyone’s statistical likelihood of starvation will go up a bit.
I’m just going to eat people.
Good news! Soylent Green can provide both with a bit of processing.
