Homo sapiens

The bosses behind the four major forces.

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 spoke first:

"Everyone, this sudden change in climate is very likely to turn into 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. .”

Thomas Morgan and others naturally know this. After all, they also have think tanks and professional meteorologists within them.

It is precisely because they know that this sudden climate crisis may bring catastrophe that they hastily held secret talks.

As one of the few qualified members of the Free Association to participate in the meeting, the Duke of Windsor had a gloomy expression:

"The ice caps in both the North and South Poles are now 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, and the unstable climate is also detrimental to agricultural production in mid- 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 everyone tell us how to solve them!"

Thomas Morgan looked solemn: "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 unstoppable."

Caesar frowned, and then put forward 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……"

Everyone looked at each other.

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."

"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?"

Obviously, although Britain has declined to the point where it needs to join the Free Association to survive, some of the legacy left over from the Empire era where the sun never sets still remains.

Their research on atmospheric science is at least better than that of Lucia, who is frizzy and leaks everywhere.

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.

Because carbon dioxide has certain water solubility, it can dissolve into seawater, causing seawater to become acidic.

Coupled with rising seawater temperatures in tropical seas, which affects changes in seawater salinity, this can lead to changes in deep-sea density currents.

This is one of the intrinsic reasons for the current interruption of the North Atlantic warm current.

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.

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.

This is obviously a bad idea.

"Then you have some suggestions? You can't just do nothing, right?" Caesar was also anxious.

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?"

"Indoor agriculture? Nuclear power plant?" Caesar was very confused.

Technically speaking, if indoor agriculture and nuclear power plants are pushed forward, it can indeed solve the reduction in agricultural production caused by extreme weather.

The problem is, this investment is also an astronomical figure.

But without indoor agriculture and nuclear power plants, future open-air agriculture in mid- and high-latitude areas will definitely be severely affected.

You must know that the population of the four major forces is not small at this time.

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.

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.

The current total population of the free world is 2.13 billion people.

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.

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.

However, this is no longer possible. Agricultural production capacity in high-latitude Lucia, Maple Leaf Country, and Europa may be cut in half.

The Great Lakes Plains in northern North America, the Northeastern Coastal Plains, and the northern Mississippi Great Plains will also experience varying degrees of reductions in agricultural production.

For this year alone, ABCD and major agricultural data analysis institutions predict that the free world's food production will drop by 200-300 million tons this year, leaving only about 1.05-1.1 billion tons.

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%.

If it weren't for the ruthless actions of the four major forces, prices would have skyrocketed by now.

In many places, panic buying of grain, cooking oil, and sugar has occurred. In order to cope with the panic buying, the four major forces can only initiate purchase restrictions and at the same time fully crack down on hoarding behavior.

However, these countermeasures only address the symptoms rather than the root cause.

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.

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.

In fact, they have another option, which is to abandon some high-latitude areas and move the population to mid- and low-latitude areas.

This plan was opposed by Lucia and the Europa Consortium.

Lucia has no middle and low latitude areas, while the Europa Commonwealth is the middle and low latitude area along the long and narrow Mediterranean coast.

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.

If the population is relocated to middle and low latitudes, it will basically be next to the Homo sapiens company. This is simply a food delivery.

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 a Homo sapiens company under various restrictions.

In areas 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.

Now the four major forces are eager to be separated from the Homo sapiens company by the Pacific Ocean.

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 supercomputer simulations.

However, the results of various deductions were not good, either the entire army was wiped out, 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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