Developing technologies and best practices for enabling people to quickly adapt farming practices to a different local environment (rainfall, temperature, etc), including education and outreach and possibly switching crops (or generically engineering / breeding new varieties) along with associated farming tools and know-how and distribution and storage systems etc., would seem helpful for mitigating the damage of not only climate change but also nuclear winter / volcanic winter. While this seems very hard to do completely, it seems feasible to make progress on the margin. I haven’t heard of anyone working on that (except ALLFED arguably) but haven’t really looked.
I have noticed that work on adapting to climate change is sometimes regarded as taboo, I guess on the theory that it will undermine people’s motivation to reduce carbon emissions. I don’t believe that theory, not at all, but I gather that some people do. Admittedly it’s hard to be 100% sure.
Developing technologies and best practices for enabling people to quickly adapt farming practices to a different local environment (rainfall, temperature, etc), including education and outreach and possibly switching crops (or generically engineering / breeding new varieties) along with associated farming tools and know-how and distribution and storage systems etc., would seem helpful for mitigating the damage of not only climate change but also nuclear winter / volcanic winter. While this seems very hard to do completely, it seems feasible to make progress on the margin. I haven’t heard of anyone working on that (except ALLFED arguably) but haven’t really looked.
I have noticed that work on adapting to climate change is sometimes regarded as taboo, I guess on the theory that it will undermine people’s motivation to reduce carbon emissions. I don’t believe that theory, not at all, but I gather that some people do. Admittedly it’s hard to be 100% sure.