This emergency meeting began in their respective safe houses through a very confidential exclusive network.
Caesar looked at the other people in the video interface, and then he was the first to speak:
"Everyone, this sudden change in climate is very likely to become a huge crisis for us. Open-air agricultural production in high latitudes has been seriously affected. If the situation continues to worsen, you should all know the consequences by then.
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Thomas Morgan and others naturally know this. After all, they also have think tanks and professional meteorologists within them.
Precisely because they knew that this sudden climate crisis could bring about catastrophe, they hurriedly held secret talks.
As one of the few qualified to participate in the meeting within the Free Association, the Duke of Windsor had a gloomy expression:
"Now the ice caps in both the North and South Poles are expanding, and the interruption of the North Atlantic warm current has had a great impact. The temperature in the British Isles has dropped by 2 to 3 degrees Celsius compared with previous years. Moreover, the unstable climate also has a negative impact on agricultural production in middle and low latitudes.
Quite an impact.”
In this regard, Louis Conde of the Europa Consortium went straight to the point: "We are all aware of these situations. Let's talk about how to solve them!"
Thomas Morgan had a solemn expression: "Our meteorological research team has studied it and used supercomputers to conduct simulations. Unless the North Atlantic warm current can be restored to normal, the ice age will be difficult to stop."
Caesar frowned, and then proposed a simple and crude idea: "Can increasing the use of fossil fuels, or directly releasing methane produced by fermentation into the atmosphere, increase the greenhouse effect and suppress the outbreak of the ice age?"
"this……"
The ocean current systems of the five oceans are all connected together. As long as some of the ocean currents are abnormal, the ocean currents in other sea areas will also be affected.
Because carbon dioxide has certain water solubility, it can dissolve into seawater, causing seawater to become acidic.
Mastervon from the Europa Consortium looked at everyone, and then wiped the cold sweat from his forehead: "How about increasing the scale of indoor agriculture and nuclear power plants?"
Coupled with the increase in seawater temperature in tropical seas, which affects changes in seawater salinity, this will lead to changes in deep-sea density currents.
This plan was opposed by Lucia and the Europa Consortium.
But without indoor agriculture and nuclear power plants, future open-air agriculture in mid- and high-latitude areas will definitely be severely affected.
Everyone debated Mastervon's proposal, with the main differences over how to reduce the production costs of indoor agriculture and the safety of nuclear power plants.
"Indoor agriculture? Nuclear power plant?" Caesar was very confused.
If we do not solve the supply problem of agricultural products, restrict purchases and crack down on hoarding, we will only be able to stabilize it for a period of time.
Looking at this year's situation alone, ABCD and major agricultural data analysis organizations predict that the free world's food production will drop by 200 to 300 million tons this year, leaving only about 1.05 billion to 1.1 billion tons.
This is one of the intrinsic reasons for the current interruption of the North Atlantic warm current.
"Then you have some suggestions? You can't just do nothing, right?" Caesar was also anxious.
As for areas that are close to the Homo sapiens company, such as Annan, no matter what the restrictions are, many people will find a way to go and work there.
If the four major forces hadn't been ruthless, prices would have skyrocketed by now.
You must know that the population of the four major forces is not small at this time.
Do you know why Lucia only has more than 10 million people going to work in Homo sapiens companies?
The reason is that the distance between the two parties is too far, and it has become much more difficult for ordinary people to work in Homo sapiens companies under various restrictions.
For such a huge population, if calculated based on the subsistence standard of 400 kilograms of grain per capita per year, this would require 852 million tons of grain consumption.
The current total population of the free world is 2.13 billion people.
Kaiser proposes to increase emissions of carbon dioxide and methane, which will result in hotter tropics, colder cold zones, and more frequent extreme weather in mid-latitudes.
If there is no sudden climate change, with 852 million tons of grain, the four major forces alone can easily produce 1.4 billion tons of grain.
Everyone looked at each other in shock.
This is obviously a bad idea.
However, this is no longer possible. The agricultural production capacity of high-latitude Lucia, Maple Leaf Country, and Europa may be cut in half.
In fact, the four major forces are unwilling to give up high-latitude areas. After all, although these places are cold, they are rich in various resources, and they are also their rear areas to resist the Homo sapiens company.
Obviously, although Britain has declined to the point where it has to join the Free Association in order to survive, some of the legacy left over from the Empire era where the sun never sets still remains.
Panic buying of grain, cooking oil, and sugar has occurred in many places. In order to cope with the panic buying, the four major forces can only initiate purchase restrictions and at the same time, make every effort to crack down on hoarding behavior.
"And if carbon dioxide and methane continue to be released, the oxygen content in the atmosphere will continue to decline, which will cause health problems. You don't plan to stay in an artificial ecosystem for the rest of your life, do you?"
The problem is, this investment is also an astronomical figure.
Technically speaking, if indoor agriculture and nuclear power plants are promoted, it can indeed solve the reduction in agricultural production caused by extreme weather.
Its Free Federation has 520 million people, Lucia has another 130 million people, the Europa Federation has 450 million people, and other forces have 790 million people.
Lucia does not have mid- to low-latitude areas, while the Europa Commonwealth is the long and narrow Mediterranean coast, which is the mid- to low-latitude area.
Agricultural production in the Great Lakes Plains in northern North America, the Northeastern Coastal Plain, and the northern Mississippi Great Plains will also experience varying degrees of reductions.
In addition, there are some small forces attached to the four major forces, including 160 million people in Central Asia and other Asian regions (excluding neutral West Asia), and 80 million people in Eastern and Northern Europe.
If the population is relocated to middle and low latitudes, it will basically be next to the Homo sapiens company. It will be like delivering food.
In addition, the output of cash crops such as sunflower seeds, rapeseed, soybeans, peanuts, sugar cane, sugar beets, and cotton will also be reduced by 20 to 30%.
In fact, they have another option, which is to abandon some high-latitude areas and move the population to mid- and low-latitude areas.
Now the four major forces wish they were separated from the Homo sapiens company by the Pacific Ocean.
Many meteorological research groups have now discovered that continuing to release greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane will not only fail to suppress the arrival of the Ice Age, but may actually accelerate it.
As for whether the four major forces have ever thought about joining forces to compete with the Homo sapiens company, they have certainly considered this idea and even conducted supercomputing simulations.
However, these countermeasures only address the symptoms rather than the root cause.
However, the Duke of Windsor shook his head: "It's useless. The carbon dioxide and methane we release can increase the greenhouse effect, but the solar energy reflected by the ice caps of the North and South Poles exceeds the insulation effect brought by the greenhouse effect."
Their research on atmospheric science is at least better than that of Lucia, who is frizzy and leaks everywhere.
However, the results of various deductions were not good, either the entire army was annihilated, or it was a complete defeat.
Thomas Morgan knew that the Homo sapiens company could electrocute a person silently, which made him give up the idea of a fight to the death with the homo sapiens company.
Now they just want to maintain the status quo and not provoke the Homo sapiens company.
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