As an agroecologist i have to put some things straight here and offer some outlook/perspective. We should not and dont have to just give up and be like well it got hotter here lets abandon ship and move our vineyards to england. It is not simply that the higher temperature makes growing wine in southern european regions impossible, it is more nuanced then that. The higher temperatures make growing wine in the current conventional way impossible. There are many ways to adapt vineyards and other agricultural systems to climate change which at the same time can help mitigate climate change. First up, instead of spraying herbicides we can implement cover crops which cover the ground. This will increase soil quality, increase water holding capacity of the soil and infiltration while reducing runoff and erosion. To be clear, these cover crops would transpire, but this extra transpiration may be offset by combination of a lower soil evaporation and a higher water holding capacity and reduced runoff. Furthermore strategically timed mowing or grazing (yes even grazing with sheep is possible, check out the regenerative agriculture podcast) can reduce water use when transpiration gets too high. I have read studies that even found better grape quality using cover crops compared to bare soil. Then, we can also introduce trees in vineyards and other croping systems, this is generally called agroforestry. These trees could provide shade which reduces heat stress, delays ripening and shelters the grapes from wind, which reduces transipration in summer and risk of freezing in winter. Having other tree species in vineyards goes back even beyond roman times, so it isnt really anything radical or new. Both these strategies would also increase biodiversity below and aboveground and could provide additional forage, timber or other fruits without by definition decreasing grape yield. Increasing biodiversity, in turn, increases robuustness in the face of shifting disease and pest cycles and occurences. It is no wonder a bacteria can wipe out an olive grove or a whole region if it never encounters any barrier. When we do move vineyards to more northern or southern locations we dont by definition have to move pesticide use with them as you imply. Organic vineyards exist and fine organic wines are more then possible to produce. Ecological consequences aside, there is actually even a link between pesticide use and vineyard abundance and the prevalence of parkinsons disease in France. Although i do think changing grape varieties will be a part of the solution we as consumers will just have to deal with (which can also be exiting), we have to start thinking differently about designing our agricultural systems on a systemic level. And although there will be a limit to these adaptive strategies (but that is also true for moving wine production northward), if we don't start implementing these or other systemic solutions on a large scale, these farming systems and their farmers are indeed doomed. But it doesnt have to be that way.
Thanks man, was looking for this comment, was a bit lazy about writing one myself lol Just hoping conventional agriculture lobbys will use their brain for once
Can you tell me what you think of the seemingly deliberate use of harmful pesticides? And the buying up of farmland worldwide by the likes of Bill Gates?
Hello fellow colleague! Also agroecologist, but mainly in biocontrol/pest managment, I vouch for this comment. All these technics are showing increasing effectiveness from temperature managment to pest and disease control. The far greater issue (that I thought would be the focus of the video), is soil depletion, as most of the farm land in europe, ameria and asia, is unable to support the popular crops without tons of artificial fertilizer. At the rate of change we are seeing, intensive agriculture will soon be impossible in most of the world. As you said, addaptation and inovation is a necessity, or many will starve before they notice the wine is different.
During the Medieval Warm Period 1,000 year ago, England produced wines that rivalled those produced in France. What killed wine production in England was a climatic period known as the Little Ice Age. Europe became a lot colder and so much so that wine production ceased in England altogether during the coldest periods of the Little Ice Age. The book ,'The Little Ice Age" by Brian Fagan actually uses historical records of the dates of grape harvests in France to showcase how the Little Ice Age affected the weather by showing how much later in the season grapes were harvested.
All agricultural produce shifted north > south. Rye replaced wheat, and spring vegges became summer veggies. Adaptation to circumstances took place during many centuries. Nothing new. But the speed in which it is happening now and where it will lead to, should be a reason to worry.
This time though, we have the slight benefit of warning, satellite imagery, computer modeling, and agricultural university research. A shift of crop as suitable growth zones migrate SHOULD go more smoothly, but human tradition and current economic structure will probably exact a significant misery tax.
@@sorinclenci1691 Those changes took place over centuries, we are dealing with a change in decades. And with this change we do not know where it will end. Major differences!
@@dutchman7623 And, the "Little Ice Age" appears not to have been global. Unlike the current warming, which is spareing none of the planet. With the possible exception of this little cold ocean anomaly just south of the tip of Greenland (or so the satellites report). My bet is on the "Little Ice Age" having been a hiccup in the North Atlantic ocean circulation that gives much of Northern Europe a climate WAY milder than most places at those latitudes experience.
My grandfather planted red grape plants outside here in Latvia about 25 years ago. Since Latvia is too northern the grapes never really ripened. But last two years they were ripe.
Grand solar minimum my friend. Jets streams change to waves instead of straight. Some areas colder some hotter. Human induced climate change is a fraud, being used to destroy energy infrastructure in the free west. While china builds 80 coal fired plants. Enjoy the grapes
The record high temperatures occurred in the 1920s and 1930s and during the 60s until the 80s there was a cooling trend, in fact, at the time experts were saying that we were entering an ice age. Since the 80s and 90s there's been a warming trend but that stopped around 2012, now there's been a slight cooling trend since then.
If Europe's farmland is useless then what about other countries, like every country in Middle East, parts of Africa, parts of Asia, Australia. I'd say almost every land is useful for something, except maybe deserts
California's best farmland is mostly desert, but imported water allows it to be very productive. (now the Colorado River is drying up, so its agriculture is at risk)
From this video, it's not like Europe's farmland has a problem being generally productive... The problem is growing specific crops, and focusing on the wine industry as one that probably is resistant to different farming practices. So, for instance I don't see that warming weather or even a bit less rainfall should be an insurmountable problem for growing staples like grain. And, I would assume that well established orchards should adapt on their own without many changes although some minor changes might help the trees grow and produce more optimally. I suppose though that a long term perspective of agriculture is that there has always been a high amount of risk and uncertainty. Adapt or die.
France alone could produce enough wheat for France ,Iberia ,Benelux ,Switzerland ,Part of Germany west of the Rhine and 4 Italian region (Aoste ,Piedmont ,Liguria and Sardinia) . --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edit :+ Andorra ,Monaco ,San Marino ,Vatican and Liechenstein of course --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- France has one of the best agricultural land (in term of soil quality) in Europe, equal to Ukraine and the Russian caucasus (So the very South of Russia near Georgia/Armenia/Azerbaijan) . But there are 3 thing that doesn't allow that . 1-EU agricultural law that favor German agriculture and hinder France's one (For example one of the thing it does is that is favor Monsanto product that the German already used before the law was created ,and it banned the product used by the French ,which were more natural and productive than those of Monsanto). 2-Company get more benefice by exporting their product to other continent than by selling it on the national market . Like on the 36 Million tonnes of wheat produced annually ,16 Million goes on the national market and the remaining 20 Million are exported . 3-Food that are wasted ,so worldwide it's 33.33% (1/3) of the production that is wasted so 20 Million become 13.33 Million ,and in France ,it's 18% that is wasted so 16 Million become 13.12 Million so out of 36 Million ,only 26.45 Million will be consumed . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edit 2:In France ,there are things that reduce the amount of waste . For example the peremption date is a false one ,the real date is 3 days after what is written ,so you know you can still eat it 3 days after what is written (It may even be longer like 4/5 days for some product) . Another thing with peremption date ,reduction are applied when the product is 1 day before the peremption date (Usually the price is reduced by 50 to 80% ,but legally ,it's a minimum of 30% of reduction) So if you buy something on the 4th of December ,with a peremption date of 5th of December ,you bought it for only half the price ,and you can still consume it on the 8th of December In the EU ,Food waste are responsibles for 6% of the pollutions -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Corn or wheat are more sensitive to rains. Wineyards and orchards less because of deep roots. You have Shiraz wine variety in Iran, so no worry we will have grapes.
Comming from Australia we've had record cold weather and incredible rains..If you think grapes will be grown on Tasmania on mass you are absolutely fooling yourself..Like the commentary in thus clip..!!
@@johneverett6751 the increased cold & rainfall is the result of the El Niño and La Niña cycle ya numbnut, so just wait until the El Niño phase starts back up & it's back to grapes, so wtf are you even griping about!?
As a Frenchman, I am both terrified and appalled by the impact climate change will have on European agriculture. It might seem ridiculous and cliché but french culture is deeply linked with its local agricultural products and their disappearance would create a cultural void in my country I think. Something like an existential crisis...
@@unknowninfinium4353 I'm not a specialist by any means but it seems to me that we (I'll talk only for france, and it already is out of my competence ^^') invested a lot of cultural focus in typical dishes. As an example we are a huge user of protected geographic labels, a champagne can only be from champagne region, comté cheese from Jura region, same thing with meats, honey, fruits, vegetables etc. Should these products become impossible to produce in their origin region, I feel that a big chunk of these local identities would encounter a crisis. After all local gastronomy is one (not the only one, agreed) of the main means of identification and differentiation of french local cultures. Local languages were eradicated long ago, our education system has little room for local particularism, and our political system has a hard time delegating power to regional institutions... so food is a refuge for identity...
German whine regions around the rivers Rhine, Mosel and Saale are also benefiting from this development. It is a huge challenge, but it will also create interesting new products.
@madhurkumarchugh_0217 It doesn't make sense. If you like something that much, that everyone else had to die, because they didn't like it, how your mum lives right know? When you say, you see above her fails, you even take your own words in the garbage. If you want to live in this way, you solve no problems, you create, maybe greater problem what your children have to dig out. But hey, when your son did shit, I know your way to deal with it, garbage bin. But know you have killed some one, because he didn't like, blue, was it right and worth it?
As an owner of a small developing vineyard in Cyprus higher temperatures also means higher rainfall so we are also switching back to more traditional varieties and yes Cyprus is starting to produce good wines again after getting away from the more popular and less successful in our climates Riesling and other overrated and non traditional varieties of vine.
Most wine production in Brazil and Uruguay is already in the most southern regions. Argentina has a lot of farmable lands in the center-south so they can expand a little more, but Patagonia (most southern region) is pretty dry. Southern Chile instead is very very green, so I think they are going to be a future wine powerhouse alongside Canada and Northern US.
I mean chilean wine already is extremely well known and exported all over the world. Canada could maybe built up their white wine production in southern Ontario and BC, but even with climate change that's about it.
While climate change is important, I can’t help but feel that this is such a frivolous example of French chauvinism, where deviation from culture is an unspeakable sin. Offer a solution and it is scoffed at because this is not how we do it Burgundy.
You know that to have particular names, grapes have to be grown in a particular way and a particuar region in France right ? You cant't just change things and expect the wine to stay the same.
Also it may be conected to lower forest areas/more (tree) monocultures maybe? Has they absorve less carbon, increase local temperatures and destabelize the water cycle
@@TheMops14 I think that’s the point he’s making. Holding on to that name until it no longer works isn’t gonna be as effective as accepting that changing variety to suit the climate
@@TheMops14 You just add -style and it's ok. Bordeaux-style wine. Perfectly ok in the US. People who can't afford the real thing get the same product for less.
Every farmer knows; sometimes you grow corn, sometimes you grow wheat. Sometimes you plant alfalfa. If these vineyard managers don’t know to quit growing Chardonnay and Pinot Noir for a few years and rotate in a crop more suited for the climate then it is the farmer who’s value is diminished. Chardonnay and Pinot climate will come back one day
That is not how wine growing works at all. Do you have any idea how long the vine needs to grow before it is considered to give high quality grapes for making wine?
@@ziiro91 I imagine a very long time. Do you know how climates work? They change. Any farmer is fortunate to get any degree of consistency. That’s why we must stay flexible.
@@alld47hidrohnilougue31 you need to realize it takes 4 years to fruit. So spend money planting new grape, and wait 4 years til first fruit? They’d all go bust
@@utubedude2842 yea, because they’re staying within the same confines of the grape “box”. All farmers are really in the real estate business.. and there’s so much more they can do with real estate than farm grapes
@@alld47hidrohnilougue31 I agree with you. But it is challenging to go away from what you know works. On top of that, a lot of the equipment for grapes may not work for different crop, so machinery costs add up to.
Dang.. I live pretty close to a pretty chalky area (Stevns) here in Denmark. Maybe it's time to buy up land while it's still cheap. Soon we will be making "champagne" here =)
You focus on wine and France/Italy, but there are other climates and crops. Poland is one of the biggest agriculture countries and might be open to crops which usually need a milder climate.
Southern Germany is also on a massive limestone formation that would be suited to growing champagne grapes and has a cooler climate because it's higher altitude.
The problem is actually much deeper and scarier than the lowering quality of high grade crops. I am a farmer in central Argentina, we work in different farms and in the last 10 years we have seen radical shifts in rain and frost patterns, to the point that some planting windows have moved, and others just disappeared. This year, in large parts of the country we lost the prime planting season for maize due to temperature of the soil being too low and the missing September rains.
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Good information but let’s not forget that during the Roman occupation of U.K., vitro culture was also widespread. Ergo the temperature of plant has varied considerably
Climate Change folks want you to forget about it was warmer during the medieval warming period than today and people farming with sharpened sticks and barest of metal tools survived it. Now we are going back to the warming period with an entire computerized Ag industry. The only way we could starve is by the vile machinations of other humans.
I planted a couple of grape vines in my (Scottish) garden 20 years ago, and they've only bothered to start producing grapes over the past 2 years. This year was pretty good with several bunches, impressing me enough to buy 3 more vines. Clearly, climate change is shifting Scotland's agricultural potential too. However, I grow these vines for the fruit, not for wine, and I think that buying up vast tracts of British agricultural land for raising plants merely for the 'booze' industry is a big mistake when it is food security we need. Remember that the West will still be expected to provide for regions of the world increasingly under climate change pressure (such as Kenya, Ethiopia), and unless we want to find ourselves faced with the problem of an absolutely massive migrant crisis that we simply cannot control and certainly cannot house at the expense of our agricultural land, we need to keep producing food to feed these parts of the world. I thought this video might have been more general with regard to crops, and might have made mention of the increasingly urgent problem of remaining soil depth and fertility in Europe (there are estimates that much European land is sufficient for 'around' another 30 harvests).
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The West needs to look after their own populations before thinking of foreign aid. Food prices are expected to rise 400%. Since the 1970's, $40 Trillion has been sent in foreign aid and achieved nothing but generational dependence on the West. Many people in the West cannot even afford to eat.
Few Olive trees get already planted in my region, southern Austria... Fig trees also grow in house gardens. But in fact here could never be mediterranean conditions, because we have no sea in the very next which works as a puffer
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Many of the problems described all started because how it’s farmed. Since it removed trees, uses pesticides, and covers almost all of Europe, all that can lead to the climate changes it is experiencing right now.
Yall know back in the day English wine was awesome but then a temp shift during the middle ages killed it off, moral of the story shit happens and earth's Temps have never been constant
true, you see more of them popping up. I wonder if you plant them near the coast, you could get a salty sea taste? ( I like weird food and drinks, leave me be please :D ) somewhat cool to think about. Same goes for some of the ricefields we have planted. A company was experimenting with it. could be epic. Thought's?
The Romans had vineyards in Britain 2000years ago,before climate change(unless perhaps climate has always changed).So vineyards in southern France can plant olive or citrus trees and probably get similar earnings from the land.
Also we are at the start / since end 2016 - 2053 a grand solar cycle what tend to happen approx every 350-400 years and we already seen global changes . last time year 1540 europe entered a drought lasting 11 months, half a million died, water shortages reports were already running dry by may and huge forest fires, same as over in the usa that time period 1500-1800's forest fires on average burned 145 million acres, compared to now only 10-14 million acres. looking at past events . we could of only just seem a glimpse of whats to come since 2016 , this time the difference not lasting as long what is forecast compared to the last time it happened but we will see changes. few examples magnetic field weakened, allowing more cosmic rays to enter our atmosphere, they can help to seed clouds for example even trigger lightning. or solar wind or lack of, that plays a huge role in the jet stream. even Noaa says All weather on Earth, from the surface of the planet out into space, begins with the Sun. Space weather and terrestrial weather (the weather we feel at the surface) are influenced by the small changes the Sun undergoes during its solar cycle.
I think some of the people here are missing the point. A huge chunk of Europe's infrastructure/economy is built around certain crops. The cost to shift to new crops would be enormous and slow - Same for any part of the world.
Europe also has shifted entire shoe and textile industry to Asia or Turkey. Such changes in industry do happen. The dependency to other areas is a risk, but it does not cause any collapse by itself. I just checked the number for Germany. Share of Agriculture on GNP is 0.78%. It's not a "huge chunk".
French emperor Napoleon ordered the removal of AL wine yards in Hageland(Flanders region of Belgium) in order to avoid competition with French wines. So we invented STELLA Artois, premium lager...
Figs, persimmons, olive trees,pistachios, kiwis are already planted and harvested successfully in small orchards in Hungary. Before 1990, everyone would have said, that this is insane. The reason is not only the climate,but the way,how people were thinking in the past.
This video seems a bit odd, i don't know why you focused on Europe saying that Europe's land is going to be useless by 2100, 1) nobody can reliably predict what's going to happen in a century, by then we could of reversed climate change. 2) Europe is actually comparatively effected less than most of the world. You then said that wine making is going to disappear from parts of France due to global warming, and then showed that they are using heaters to protect the crop, as if it proved you point, when it actually prove the opposite, as clearly its the cold that is the issue not the heat. Its just wierd that you keep saying that Europe's agriculture will become worthless, when as you pointed out, if the worst happens it will just require different crops to be grown, its not like hot countries such as India or brazil can have agriculture.
There are streets in London that are named after wine and wine producing. There was a great migration in the middle ages because of cooling climates for the north. There are changes in climate everytime. They where (and are) not related to us!
@@N0Xa880iUL Chernozem is a combination of two words. "cherno" is from "chorniy" (letter i have a hard pronunciation) - the name of the black color in ukrainian/russian/etc and "zem" is from "zemlya" which is soil.
Through time agriculture and produce have moved south north constantly. In the Middle Ages the north was warmer but it cooled down around 1500, and around 1600 experienced an 'ice age', which slowly turned around 1750 to normal again. Adaptation and switching is quite normal. But we have to do everything to make it slow in a way these adjustments can take place. Looking forward to pineapples and bananas from Spain, and Danish wine.
I remember reading Wealth of Nations in college, and Adam Smith talking about trading English wool with Portuguese wine is better for both countries, as Portugal is too hot for sheep to grow good wool, and England is too cold to grow good grapes. How the turn tables. XDDD
The climate always changes. The Roman’s grew grapes in England. As did the medieval residents of England. The little ice age of the 1700s put a stop to that. Adapt and overcome.
Honestly many grape varieties grow in hot and warm climates like Australia, Chile, and California. I'm surprised sommeliers can taste differences in hillsides for example.
The data about rainfall in Athens dating back to 1890s show no decrease in average long term rainfall and an actual small increasing trend since the 90s. Sadly there is no source list in the video description to find out where you found that rainfall in southern Europe has declined so I assume it's just fear mongering
There is a community on the English Chanel named Faversham in Kent. If they grow grapes they could make Favershampaigne. Or they could torture people and give them Faversham pain.
I have farmed in the midsection of the US for 50 years. It was much warmer here in the 1930s, 1950s and 1980s, and 2000s than it is now. I realize that climate change effects some regions more quickly than others but weather or climate goes in cycles--some of the cycles are shorter duration of perhaps 11 to 22 years as the lunar maximum and minimum of 11 and 22 years do seem to come into play, but even then sometimes it may be 10 or 12 years, as weather does not actually follow on a human predicted schedule or calendar. . And we have La Niña and El Niño and the ENSO and so many other factors come into play. Then we have had mini ice ages in human recorded history and one led to the failure of the French wheat crop and most likely the French Revolution. As Yogi Berra said "making prediction is difficult, especially when it is about the future." Circa 12,000 years ago we had an event that melted the Mile thick glaciers in what if now North America, in a period of maybe 200 years. The oceans rose 400 feet. All of this is a gross generalization, but so far our lives in recorded history have been during a rather constant warm period that has allowed agriculture to feed 8 billion people.
Exactly, but long earth cycles are an inconvenient truth for the sheeple. They have enormous anxiety about glaciers receding but don't understand that they were only there because of ice ages.
looks like we are getting a rare 3 La Niña in a row, This is rare, but not unheard of. Triple La Niñas have also occurred in, for example, 1973-1976 and 1998-2001 going back to 1903. La Niña events have occurred on a regular basis during the early parts of both the 17th and 19th centuries. March 2022 Suriname flooding (attributed to La Niña) , 2021 New South Wales floods (severity fueled by La Niña, 2020 Atlantic hurricane season (unprecedented severity fueled by La Niña). also we at the beginning of a grand solar cycle what tend to come every 350-400 years, this grand cycle 2020-2053, from about the mid 20's to end of the 30's is forecast to be the worst of the cycle with the lowest solar activity so we just have to see, but events from the last time europe 11 month drought killed half million, or huge forest fires in the usa 10x more burn acreage through the 1500-1800. that same time period we did also go through a cooler period too
So, they produced the best wine in history . . . and that's a problem? Increased CO2 is magnificent for plants. It has begun to bring back even parts of the Sahara desert. Greenhouse farmers pump into their houses 20X the amount of CO2 that's in the atmosphere.
The climate always fluctuates. Why did you think the ice age ended, did the mammoths burn coal? The little ice age lasted from 1300 - 1859, Europeen farms suffered. During 1280 -1350, and 1460 - 1550 there was solar spot minimum, the glaciers in the alps grow, The river Thems in England froze. this caused starvation in northern Europe. During the viking age the temperature was warmer.
Of course you can sweeten wine! A number of decades ago, some wineries, probably lesser ones, mixed glycol into their wine. Certainly stirred things up when the news broke! ;) But then people have cheated on olive oil, too. And, of course, liquor. As in methanol instead of ethanol.
that's some big BS dude, if that was the case wines in Spain and Italy would be trash but not, they are pretty good, plus you have something similar to champagne in the catalan region in Spain (Cava) and those grapes are growing in a much, much warmer climate and still the result is excellent
Fascinating! I have visited the areas of several of my favorite wines, the Moselle and Rhine valleys, Veneto, Jerez de la Frontera, Oporto and the Napa-Sonoma region in California. I also visited the Finger Lakes Region of New York early on in my discovery of wine. Strangely, you didn't mention the US, particularly California, as a major wine producer. If, having gotten your feet wet [an unintentional reference to traditional methods] in the heart of the European wine industry, you should look at the enormous and varied US wine scene, and you have barely mentioned the important Chile and Argentina wine area, and the expanding Australian industry. All of these areas call for more video attention. Thanks for this, and hopefully for more in the future.
Europe farmland, according to author French horticulture. There is simply no Europe East and North of France. I bet Scandinavian and Baltic farmland has a much different story to tell.
Some things will be more difficult to grow while other items will become easier to grow. It's called adapting to your environment. Climate change is ALSO a natural occurrence. Perspective and adaptation are important.
“Europe’s farmland has a huge problem . . . . blah blah blah global warming . . . . wine . . . . great recent vintages . . . . “ Meanwhile, despite the global warming hysteria, European agricultural production is at an all-time record. SMH.
If so many efforts are required to keeping alive a certain species, is it not logical to think if it’s the proper plant for such kind of environment? Just because it’s “historical” doesn’t necessarily means is the best. Unnumbered varieties has been developed, cultivated and changed just during the last century in order to adapt to different conditions (both environmental and social), so I’m personally quite confident that would be just another case to adapting to the new conditions and developing something able to thrive in this scenario. All history is continuous evolution and adaptation, complaining about a change doesn’t usually make that much of a difference and most definitely doesn’t make a land become “worthless” just because of that. resilience and creativity are usually a better and wiser solution. Most of the land not so long ago was considered inhospitable and completely purposeless, and now are some of the most productive areas of the entire planet. Once again not necessarily productivity mean good, nor bad...it will comes with pro and cons as well.. i have recently had a reminder about a recurring (around 100years or so) series of cyclical severe drought events (as the one affecting USA around the ‘30 and known as “dust bowl”). And I was fascinated by how everybody focus only on certain aspects of climate change (each person with his/her own point/opinion/reason behind), and usually mainstream news focus on desertification and temperature increase, but then almost nobody speak about many other recutting phenomena that punctually comes. It may be for sure impacted by thousands of reason (both human and not human made) but the spectrum of the news should be a little broader, in my humble opinion. Since nature wise, any change carry pro and cons, as it always did ever since....so maybe beside speculations and fear mongering it would be nice to have from time to time some reminders about the whole complexity of the system itself.
Another problem is soil degradation. We are not returning enough organic matter into the soil. The soil is dead, it has lost most of its insects and bacteria due to the use of pesticides, so it cannot decompose organic matter.
Wait a minute. France gets too hot to grow red grapes for high quality red wines? So how come Spain and Portugal produce such great red wine so much further south?
"oh no vulnerable species like Pandas" ; Meanwhile most birds and parrots are critically-endangered or nearly extinct due to deforestation because we need more and more farmland, so we can get fatter.
Where I live winter is almost like a second spring season now, and I’ve started growing cool weather veggies in my garden through November December and January. Normally evaporation is a huge problem because we live at the edge of the desert and it’s very dry here. But in the winter the soil stays moist with less water. So growing stuff in winter is becoming more and more worth it.
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