Homo sapiens.

Chapter 520 Self-help
The behind-the-scenes bosses of the four major forces.

In their respective safe houses, this emergency meeting started through a very confidential and exclusive network.

Caesar looked at the other people in the video interface, and was the first to speak:
"Everyone, this sudden climate change is very likely to become a huge crisis for us. Now the open-air agricultural production in high-latitude areas has been seriously affected. If the situation continues to deteriorate, you should all know the consequences by then. .”

Thomas Morgan and others are naturally clear, after all, they also have think tanks and professional meteorologists inside.

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

As a member of the free association, the few Dukes of Windsor who are eligible to participate in the meeting have a gloomy expression:
"Now the ice caps in the north and south poles are expanding, and the impact of the North Atlantic warm current is too great. The temperature in the British Isles has dropped by 2 to 3 degrees Celsius compared with previous years, and the unstable climate is also harmful to agricultural production in the middle and low latitudes. No small impact."

In this regard, Louis Conde of the Europa Federation went straight to the point: "We are all aware of these situations, everyone talk about how to solve them!"

Thomas Morgan's expression was solemn: "Our meteorological research team has studied it and also used supercomputers to simulate it. Unless the North Atlantic warm current can be restored to normal, the ice age will be difficult to stop."

Kaiser frowned, and then proposed a simple and crude idea: "Increasing the use of fossil fuels, or directly releasing the methane produced by fermentation into the atmosphere, can it 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 sheets at the north and south poles exceeds the heat preservation effect brought by the greenhouse effect."

"And if you continue to release carbon dioxide and methane, the oxygen content in the atmosphere will continue to decline, which will cause health problems. You don't plan to stay in the artificial ecosystem for the rest of your life, do you?"

Obviously, although Britain has fallen so low that it has to join the free association before it can survive, the legacy left over from the era of the empire on which the sun never sets still has some heritage.

Their research on atmospheric science is at least better than that of the frizzy and leaky Lucia.

Now many meteorological research groups have found that the continued release of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane will not only fail to suppress the arrival of the ice age, but may accelerate the arrival of the ice age.

Because carbon dioxide is water-soluble to a certain extent, it can dissolve into seawater, causing seawater to become acidic.

In addition, the temperature of seawater in tropical seas rises, which affects the change of seawater salinity, which will lead to changes in deep-sea density currents.

This is one of the internal reasons for the current cut-off 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.

Caesar proposes to increase emissions of carbon dioxide and methane, with the result that the tropics will be hotter, the frigid regions will be colder, and extreme weather in the mid-latitudes will become more frequent.

This is obviously a bad idea.

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

Master Feng of 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 farming? Nuclear power plant?" Kaiser was very entangled.

Technically speaking, if indoor agriculture and nuclear power plants are pushed hard, 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-to-high latitudes will definitely be seriously affected.

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

Its free association has 5.2 million people, Lucia has 1.3 million people, Europa Federation has 4.5 million people, and other forces have 7.9 million people.

In addition, there are some small forces attached to the four major forces, including 1.6 million people in Central Asia and other Asian regions (excluding the neutral West Asia region), and 0.8 million people in Eastern Europe and Northern Europe.

The total population of the free world is currently 21.3 billion people.

With such a huge population, if calculated on the basis of the food and clothing standard of 400 kilograms of grain per capita per year, it would need to consume 8.52 million tons of grain.

If there is no sudden change in climate, 8.52 million tons of grain can easily produce 14 billion tons of grain based on the homeland of the four major powers alone.

However, it is no longer possible. In the high latitudes of Lucia, Maple Leaf Country, and Europa, the agricultural production capacity may have to be cut in half.

In the Great Lakes Plain in northern North America, the Northeast Coastal Plain, and the northern Mississippi Great Plains, agricultural production will also experience varying degrees of decline.

In this year's situation alone, the ABCD and the agricultural data analysis agencies of the major forces predict that the grain output of the free world will drop by 2-3 million tons this year, leaving only about 10.5 billion-11 billion tons.

In addition, commercial crops such as sunflower seeds, rapeseed, soybeans, peanuts, sugar cane, sugar beets, and cotton should also reduce their production by 20-30%.

If it weren't for the ruthless actions of the four major forces, it is estimated that the price of goods would have gone up by now.

There have been panic buying of grain, edible oil, and sugar in many places. In order to deal 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.

However, these countermeasures are palliative rather than permanent.

If the supply problem of agricultural products is not resolved, purchase restrictions and a crackdown on hoarding will only stabilize for a period of time.

As for Mastervon's proposal, everyone debated. The main differences were how to keep the production cost of indoor farming down and the safety of nuclear power plants.

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

This plan was opposed by Lucia and the Europa Federation.

Lucia is a region without middle and low latitudes, and the Europa Commonwealth is a region with a long and narrow Mediterranean coast, which is a region with middle and low latitudes.

In fact, the four major powers are not willing to give up the high-latitude areas. After all, although these places are cold, they are rich in various resources, and they are also the rear for them to resist Homo sapiens.

If the population is relocated to the middle and low latitudes, it will basically be next to the Homo sapiens company, which is like delivering food.

Do you know why only more than 1000 million people in Lucia went to Homo Sapiens to work?
The reason is that the distance between the two parties is too far away. Under various conditions, it is much more difficult for ordinary people to go to Homo sapiens company to work.

And those areas that are close to the Homo sapiens company, such as Annan, no matter how restricted, many people have a way to go to the Homo sapiens company to work there.

Now the four major forces are eager to separate the Pacific Ocean from Homo sapiens.

As for whether the four major forces have thought about joining forces and fighting Homo sapiens, of course they have thought about this idea, and even performed supercomputing simulations.

However, the results of various deduction are not very good, either the whole army is wiped out, or it is completely defeated.

Thomas Morgan knew that Homo sapiens could electrocute a person silently, which made him give up the idea of ​​fighting to the death with Homo sapiens.

Now they just want to maintain the status quo, not to provoke Homo sapiens.

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