The Salinas Valley is considered the best growing soil in the world and much of the lettuce crops for the U.S. are grown there. But, here's the problem. The value of the property is going up because people want bedroom communities for Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Jose. So, all the people that want to work for people in those areas might want to own homes that aren't 1 million dollars each. So, the farm land becomes valuable to them as places to build homes that aren't as expensive in all these places. As the land becomes more valuable instead of growing food for mankind this land gets turned into homes and estates instead.
This is happening all over the world to the best growing soils for growing food for mankind. It isn't just happening in California where land values are going up in insane ways especially anywhere near Silicon Valley driven up exponentially by dot com millionaires and billionaires. So, the best land stops being farmland because of these dynamics and others around the world.
Also, the drought in Southern California caused the killing of thousands of acres of Grape vines for growing wines. There wasn't enough water to water these thousands of acres of grapes to make wine with. So, they all died. It is sickening to drive up 101 north of Santa Barbara all the way to King City now because of all the dead Grape vines from no water to water them the last 5 years because of droughts.
These are just two of the present day factors causing potential starvation of billions in the near and far future if we keep turning farmland into homes for people instead of growing food on the best farmland on earth. If you take the best soil on earth and turn it into homes you can no longer grow food there for the masses.
As I have written before there is a reason why only 1 billion people are sustainable here on earth. If you study history no more than one billion people actually lived on earth.
As you can see by the graph below no more than 1 billion people lived on earth until around 1800 or so. What allowed more people than this to live? At first it was steam tractors and steam engines down rivers on ships and across oceans hauling food long distances from farms that were mostly remote. Once food could be hauled longer distances more people could be sustained.
Next, oil and gas allowed gasoline and diesel tractors to farm by doing the work of hundreds or thousands of workers from then on too. These are some of the ONLY reasons why 8 billion people are only temporarily sustained this century.
But, global Warming caused by human beings the last 15,000 years of burning things on earth and changing the ecology will greatly thin out the human race from rain and drought and various types of wind storms this century.
So, when I look into the future as an intuitive the thing that mankind is least prepared for is over 100 mph winds which completely blow away all crops in flat areas around the world. And Second they are not prepared for extreme rains and floods some places and extreme droughts other places.
Actually, the end of cities like Miami and Venice and others through rising sea waters will be so gradual (except during hurricanes and storms) that people will naturally migrate to higher ground (or be forced to) over time (or they will put their homes on stilts (one of these options) over time.
But, I potentially foresee about 1/2 of the population of earth wiped out either financially or physically or both by global warming in it's various forms this century already by 2100.
So, migrations will increase as well as Fascist reactions to migrations likely will increase too, unfortunately.
So, the ONLY way I can presently see to avoid billions of deaths from global warming would be for people to move underground so we can still farm enough land to feed billions of people.
This would keep the surface of earth available for recreation and farming only. But, likely 1/2 of the population of earth will have to die in horrible ways through weather and starvation for this to actually happen.
However, if this doesn't happen eventually I believe that the human race will eventually go extinct either through starvation or turning the earth into an asteroid belt like our ancestors did on Maldek which is now the asteroid belt out past Mars when they blew it up accidentally in a nuclear war.
We migrated here from there (our ancestors did) and then genetically designed us from their dna and ape dna so we could have strong enough immune systems to survive here while they all eventually died because they couldn't fully adapt to the micro-organisms here on earth. Originally we were bred to be their servants until they all either died or went back to previous solar systems our species came from originally.
I wrote about my past life memories of this here:
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