<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Nick, I presented your question about variability to our close Swedish colleague, Lars Larsson. Here is his response below.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Lars Larsson</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:perslars@hotmail.com">perslars@hotmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Jan 5, 2020 at 6:10 AM<br>Subject: Sv: Question from Merle<br>To: Merle Lefkoff <<a href="mailto:merlelefkoff@gmail.com">merlelefkoff@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br>
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All farming-land need a rotation of different crops. Some times perennial plants to increase the nitrogen and some time other crops<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important">So it means that we need a rotation program (3-5 year) and this different plant must stand the climate change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important">A bigger problem is the insects. We need them for this rotation. I have been working with my local food program since
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important">I talk to fisher/hunters and they told me that this year the fishing was zero. So I talk to next village and next village
and next village and everywhere the same problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important">So I find some experts (entomologist) of insects and they told me that the situation i<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">s </span>catastrophic. The insect are
more or less extinct. In this clean country?</span></div>
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We <u>cant focus on climate change</u>, it is only a part of the problem. Just now, just here it is not a problem at all. The problem with lack of insects is worse.</div>
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The entomologists told me the they have warn the government years ago. The problem is the management of the forests and the pesticides from the farming.</div>
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This is two sensitive areas for the government so they did not listen. If the scientist was to <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">tell about it</span> the<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">y</span> lost their titles so they could not tell the truth about it.</div>
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And it is still the same situation.</div>
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So in my topsoil improvement program I involve the insects and now it is emergency. We have 2-3 years to help them to survival. </div>
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If the insects will be extinct the climate doesn't matter we can't survival. It takes millions of years to repair. Climate can be adjusted i 100 year if we want.</div>
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<b>Skickat:</b> den 5 januari 2020 07:54<br>
<b>Till:</b> Lars Larsson <<a href="mailto:perslars@hotmail.com" target="_blank">perslars@hotmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Ämne:</b> Question from Merle</font>
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<div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">A member of the complexity group here is a retired Philosophy professor. I've got them all thinking about climate now, and here is what Nick wrote:</div>
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<div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:black;font-size:13.5pt">"I could (after some labor) cite data to support the following concern: W</span><span style="color:black;font-size:13.5pt">hat we should be watching
out for, perhaps more than long term </span><span style="color:black;font-size:13.5pt">climate warming, is increases in year-to-year climate variability. </span><span style="color:black;font-size:12pt"><br>
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<div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:black;font-size:13.5pt">You can grow rape seed in Canada and maize in the US, and as the </span><span style="color:black;font-size:12pt"><br>
</span><span style="color:black;font-size:13.5pt"> climate alters, the bands of climate supporting these two crops will </span><span style="color:black;font-size:12pt"><br>
</span><span style="color:black;font-size:13.5pt"> move north. But what happens if one year the climate demands one crop </span><span style="color:black;font-size:13.5pt"> and the next the other? And the switch from one to the other is </span><span style="color:black;font-size:13.5pt">entirely
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<div>Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.<br>
Center for Emergent Diplomacy<br>
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</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.<br>President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy<br><a href="http://emergentdiplomacy.org" target="_blank">emergentdiplomacy.org</a></div><div>Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA</div><div></div><div><a href="mailto:merlelefoff@gmail.com" target="_blank">merlelefkoff@gmail.com</a><br>mobile: (303) 859-5609<br>skype: merle.lelfkoff2<br></div><div>twitter: @Merle_Lefkoff<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>