Tom Ritchford on Nostr: By the end of the century, nearly all the area in the tropics will be uninhabitable ...

By the end of the century, nearly all the area in the tropics will be uninhabitable to human life and most of the 4 billion people there will be gone.

Between the collapse of the AMOC, other weather events, and the loss of cheap fossil fuels, a great deal of the food production capacity of the rest of the world will be gone. Please realize that today, each 1 calorie of food production requires 10 calories of energy input.

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