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No need to pray ray as it is heating up. My snow ball effect is taking place now and the ramp up in heating over the next 30 years will be unreal as more snow and ice melts more dark surface area will be heated by the sun. Anyone living 70 years and later from now will have a sad and sorry life as the planet starts to die off.
Americans don't count on the Midwest for agriculture as much as we once had outside of mostly having crops grown for feed (corn, wheat, alfalfa) and soy which is heavily exported. Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas combined rack up just 19% of the total agriculture produced in the US annually.
Markets will adjust, farmers will adapt, consumers will have enough to eat.
If the Midwest became like the Sahara, then we'd irrigate it with water from the Great Lakes and from coastal desalination plants. People would cool their homes with solar. Home gardeners would have a longer growing season.
But, it's hard to imagine this happening. There's a lot of water in the Midwest and Great Plains. It's going to continue to be the nation's breadbasket for a long time to come.
When there were grain shortages in past history, people's health vastly improved.
Humans don't thrive on all that grain!
Correct, wheat and soy are TERRIBLE to consume overall, and result in deleterious health consequences. Obesity epidemic is correlated with advent of modern wheat in the food supply starting in the mid 1980's.
Paleo, Keto, and Gluten Free combined are great.
Alaska is having an 11-degree spike in its average yearly temperature. Maybe that's where our new US breadbasket will be.
Soils are not appropriate for growing low latitude crops in.. This is a prime reason why Canadian agriculture cannot expand northward. Canadian Shield soils are marshy, poorly drained, and rocky. Therefore, woods predominate, NOT crops.
I don't see that happening in my live time. At worst it'll become like Eastern Colorado and Eastern Montana.
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