Thanx to Isenhand also for a thotful, if not optimistic assessment. I too have been online (for over 20 years) and not only not gotten anywhere, seen it all get worse. And I grant that even with wise leadership, the climate may become so much more variable that there's no way that agriculture can cope to meet global food needs.
My own garden was severely hit on April 10, which would not normally have been a problem, but the weeks leading up to it had been unprecidentedly so warm that lotsa plants spouted, Even the Hickory trees had leafed out so much, and have not yet recovered.
I grow several gynecological herbs for birth contol and abortions, and my wild yam in particular got wiped out, and I know it'll be very hard to find a sample in the creek bottoms that was not also killed.
My websites, such as the latest
http://www.dc-pc.org dont get many hits and trivial feedback. Nonetheless, I persist in folly. I dont have that much other stuff that needs my attention. But if you click the link there on FARM MATH, you get some idea of what we may be in for if rural areas again will need to rely on local resources to grow food (ie without imported oil or petrochemicals).
It may not come to that; the US is *still* a major producer of domestic oil. But the states which produce oil mite decide to keep what they produce by seceding from the Untied States of Denial. Which is another unpredictable phenomena.