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Eight: Mark Lynas on climate change

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

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Food Prices Going Up, Food Features Going Down

If there's a huge food shortfall like that, i think we'll probably have some heads up that this is coming ahead of time. And fortunately, unlike in, you know, 500 years ago, we are in the fortunate situation where most people to day aren't already producing food. Most capital to day isn't already allocated towards producing more food. The potential a bunch of elasticity there, where, if food prices go up tenfold, that a lot more people can go out and try to grow food one way or another. A lot more capital be realicated towards agriculture in order to try to ameliorate the effects dYou canalso imagine, just as like everyone in march

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