@farhanasultana @lisamelton The quick-fix idea that irks me the most is the assumption that we’ll be able to farm former tundra and boreal forests the way we did the mid-latitude breadbaskets. It doesn’t work that way for dozens of reasons, from unsuitable soils to limited light. The maximum population carrying capacity of the arable land, or the land that can be made arable in those regions, is single digit percentage points of our population even in a stable climate and not one where three years of freak heat waves and early frosts destroys the one possible harvest per year.