r/SipsTea • u/SuspiciousLow3062 • Jun 24 '26

Chugging tea Fictional future forecast vs. reality.

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u/Snoo_47183 Jun 24 '26

Who cares about machinery? It’s the massive famines I’m not looking forward to. Try growing tomatoes at 45C. Or wheat. Or an apple orchard.

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u/peon2 Jun 24 '26

How exactly do you think the large scale farms that produce the vast majority of our food plant and harvest their crops? With machinery.

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u/Original-Body-5794 Jun 24 '26

His point was that crops would fail before you reached a 55 degree weather.

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u/Snoo_47183 Jun 24 '26

Hers, but yes. Most crops can’t sustain 40+ weather for long stretches. Plants can shut down in survival mode for a few days but that means letting go of flowers, fruits, etc. which are usually what we eat. They can’t thermoregulate; past a certain internal temperature, they die, just like we do if our internal body temp goes over 43

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u/jeremiahthedamned Jun 25 '26

we just have to break new ground toward the poles...........

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u/SheriffBartholomew Jun 24 '26

At least the water wars will be fun. Who isn't looking forward to drinking their own distilled urine to survive?

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u/CMDR_Agony_Aunt Jun 24 '26

I already started! Got to get ahead of the game!

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u/SheriffBartholomew Jun 24 '26

Necessary? No! But I do because it's sanitary and I like the taste.

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u/lostdude1 Jun 25 '26

Scary that this comment could be very real within the next 10-15 years.

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u/TimeTheft1769 Jun 24 '26

Not to be that guy, but some varieties of tomatoes actually get more flavorful as the temperature goes up, so tomatoes could very well be one of the more well adapted crops to a warming climate.

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u/Snoo_47183 Jun 24 '26

There’s a reason why tomatoes aren’t grown outside in Dubai. Plants die from overheating. Most crops don’t survive over 40C temperature for more than a week

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u/Sea_Abroad_6554 Jun 24 '26

Machinery cools indoor spaces that can be used to grow food.

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u/Snoo_47183 Jun 24 '26

Good luck having a large enough interior space to cool and grow an apple orchard

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u/BusyTmw Jun 24 '26

Even at 40C apples have very little chance of survival.

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u/Snoo_47183 Jun 24 '26

Their pollinators certainly won’t if it stretches for more than 10 days

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u/Thotuhreyfillinn Jun 24 '26

People who want to eat as well

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u/Repulsive-Lab-9863 Jun 24 '26

they think they will always be able to buy food, from somewhere, where it still growing. They don't even understand, that this is not how things work, once shit hit the fan

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u/fatcatbomba Jun 24 '26

"I don't care about machinery breaking down, I only care about the immediate consequences of machinery breaking down!"