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Chapter 2251 The Great Food Famine in the Twenty-Third Century (3)

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    Six years ago, it was the spring of 2292.

    Three major events happened that year. The first thing was that the greenhouse effect that year exceeded the limit of previous years. Until the beginning of May, the temperature still had not returned to above zero. Many areas where summer should have started a hundred years ago were still still there.  in winter.

    According to analysis, the main reason is that the ocean's carbon dioxide content was saturated in 1988 and no longer helped the entire earth environment share carbon dioxide, which directly doubled the rate of increase in global carbon dioxide concentration. Coupled with various reasons such as reduced vegetation, the global carbon dioxide concentration eventually increased.  The speed was three times higher than in the past. This was the straw that broke the camel's back, indirectly causing the greenhouse effect to reach an extreme level that year.

    Spring and autumn have completely disappeared. Most areas only have summer and winter. In some places, there are three months of summer and nine months of winter. In some places, there are nine months of summer and three months of winter. In short, the climate  It became very abnormal. At the same time, the melting of glaciers after summer also caused many islands and coastal areas to be submerged, causing heavy losses.

    Such temperature changes.

    ?Eventually, global food production was cut in half.

    Still quite normal and reasonable.

    This was just the first thing. Soon, probably after summer started in July of that year, another major event happened in the world, that is, the resurgence of ancient viruses. Fortunately, the resurrected viruses were not targeting humans.  Humans have almost no impact, and what's worse is that those viruses have a great impact on marine life. At first, because the viruses had no impact on humans, all countries did not pay much attention to those ancient viruses, nor did they strictly control the ancient viruses.

    Wait until the virus is discovered.

    The virus has spread to all ocean basins and entered major freshwater waters.

    There are many types of ancient viruses that cause relatively many harms. However, compared to the harms that can cause diseases and deformities in certain marine organisms, there is one type that is extremely contagious and only destroys the reproduction of life in the infected sea area.  Systems, the ancient viruses that do not harm their lives are far more harmful than any other viruses.

    When people did not pay much attention to the impact of related viruses, it quietly infected almost half of the sea creatures. Coupled with the impact of other viruses and cross-infection, by the end of September, the waters of all sea areas were filled with the corpses of dead water creatures.  , some even began to rot and smell, and became a petri dish for various viruses to breed, mutate, and spread, further endangering all marine life.

    In order to control the situation, major countries spent a lot of manpower and material resources, but in the end they were unable to control it. The only thing they could do was to salvage the bodies of dead sea creatures and burn them as much as possible, in order to reduce sea pollution.

    In addition, major aquaculture bases were also seriously damaged. Many of them were destroyed by a pond or dozens of acres of water.

    It can be said that the global aquaculture fishing.

    They all suffered a huge blow within three months and were set back thousands of years.

    Many sea areas have almost become Dead Seas.

    In other words, some marine organisms living in the deep sea, as well as marine plants, and even some relatively small marine organisms such as plankton have not been affected by those ancient viruses.

    Even other marine life is not extinct.

    That is also true.

    Some marine fishing teams have been working hard all day and night, but they probably can¡¯t catch even 1% of what they used to. The prices of aquatic products are rising like crazy, and many times they are out of stock.

    This is only the second thing that happened that year.

    The impact of the third thing is actually greater.

    In October of that year, soil deactivation began to occur around the world. Although the scope of deactivation was not large, it did occur.

    At the same time, it also appeared.

    The phenomenon of plant gene collapse.

    It is the phenomenon of sudden large-scale death and withering of genetically modified plants during the growth and development period.

    The former of these two phenomena has been predicted by experts for a long time, so everyone can still accept it.

    Due to the extensive use of chemical fertilizers, the imbalance of trace elements in the soil, and the increase in environmental pollution, soil deactivation is only a matter of time. Countries have been prepared for this.

    The latter is really unexpected.

    But fortunately, the latter, that is, the overall scope of the plant gene collapse phenomenon was not very large, so the impact on global crop yields that year was not great. If the plant gene collapse phenomenon had occurred on a large scale that year, then I am afraid that the  Global crop production?It's not cut in half, but directly reduced to 20%.

    These three things are the three major events that happened six years ago. That is to say, since six years ago, global food crop production has never increased.

    It is even declining year by year.

    With the decline in food production, the cost of raising various livestock is naturally rising, while the number is gradually decreasing. As a result, the appetite of people who are short of oil and water will inevitably increase, further exacerbating the food crisis.

    In short, the decline in global food production and the decline in aquatic and meat production directly increases everyone's appetite, further exacerbating the global food crisis and forming a vicious cycle.

    ¡°At the beginning, some countries with relatively sufficient food reserves were able to barely stabilize prices.

    But three years later, after three consecutive years of decline in grain output, the inventories of various countries were basically empty. Even if they wanted to plan the economy, there was not enough grain to plan the economy. The normal output was less than 20% of the total output.  Even the planned economy of the minimum living standard cannot be maintained.

    Originally, many countries were focusing on soilless cultivation, hoping to alleviate the situation a little through soilless cultivation. However, the collapse of plant genes has spread further. After more than two years of development, all genetically modified plants have even become  There is no way to grow normally, and there is no way to grow normally even in soilless cultivation.

    Therefore, each country can only use the most primitive plant seeds in stock, and the yield of those plant seeds is really too low. Therefore, even if all countries have implemented soilless cultivation, they are even expanding the scope of soilless cultivation as much as possible.  area.

    The output is not enough to feed everyone.

    ? Coupled with the collapse of the social welfare system.

    Many people simply cannot afford food.

    But even so, the social order is not completely chaotic, because the government dispatches a large number of robots to maintain social order, and any illegal and criminal behavior will be stopped by the robots.

    Although he said he would find a way on the surface.

    But in reality there is still no help.

    It turned out that I was in this situation, because I was cut off from my pension, and I didn¡¯t want to increase the burden on my son and daughter, so I lived frugally at home, spent my last money, bought the last thing and ate it,  Pass away and live forever.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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