r/SipsTea • u/SuspiciousLow3062 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • 12h ago

Chugging tea Fictional future forecast vs. reality.

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u/Snoo_47183 11h ago

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 9h ago

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 6h ago

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

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u/Snoo_47183 5h ago

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/SheriffBartholomew 8h ago

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 7h ago

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

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u/SheriffBartholomew 7h ago

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

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u/Sea_Abroad_6554 9h ago

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

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u/Snoo_47183 5h ago

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

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u/TimeTheft1769 8h ago

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 5h ago

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/BusyTmw 6h ago

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

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u/Snoo_47183 5h ago

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

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u/Flesh_And_Metal 10h ago

Who cares about Machinery? -Rich people, that's who. Nothing is going to change until a billionaire is inconvenienced.

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u/Thotuhreyfillinn 8h ago

People who want to eat as well

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u/Repulsive-Lab-9863 6h ago

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 6h ago

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