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As a result of climate change you get more extreme weather, but how does that automatically result in dire times?

When it starts interfering with agriculture by killing crops, resulting in famine and food shortages.

I understand how it can happen, but the original poster wrote in such a way that this would be inevitable. I don't think that is certain.

This isn’t some speculative thing. It literally happened in the 2003 heat wave, where crops failed due to the extreme heat. With even higher temperatures in this heat wave it will certainly happen this year too.

As these sorts of heat waves become more frequent, our food supply will become more unstable which, left unchecked, will eventually result in famine even in rich parts of the world like Europe.

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