many of these children might not get to grow up at all.

As usual when it comes to climate impact, the US will be fine. Three out of every four calories of corn is used to make ethanol or feed animals, both of which are ridiculously inefficient uses. Hell, corn syrup is in everything because the US grows so much more corn than it needs that we practically give away the corn syrup.

Soybeans are even less efficient - less than 3% of the American soybean crop is actually eaten by human beings, despite soybeans being a complete vegetable protein and one of the healthiest foods out there.

In other words, the United States could lose 9/10ths of the land growing corn and soybeans and still feed itself with plenty to spare.

All that land is only under cultivation at all because the United States can’t stand the idea of giving up one foot of the land it stole in the name of manifest destiny. Because if we weren’t using land for corn and beans in the Midwest or grazing cattle in the Great Plains, people might start asking why not give it back to the indigenous peoples we stole it from.

So yeah, America will be fine.

It’s the rest of the world that’s going to suffer for America’s climate crimes.

We are so so fucked.

I guess this will raise the prices for the non-key crops also

I don’t know if it’s the mdd but I’m kinda glad humans are ending.

I guess so if the entire world is entering the country illegally……