Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "Billions in damages: How to stop the drought crisis? | Transforming Business" video.

using olive oil price increase as the example of agricultural goods costing more due to climate change is either ignorant or dishonest. olives have become probably europe's most threatened agricultural produce since the mid-2010s due to a plant disease epidemic, by now spread through all european olive regions, which is a bacterium called xylella fastidiosa that is spread by sap-sucking insects. it infects many dozens of plant species, but in olives in particular, it weakens almost all trees incurably to such a high degree that they seize to produce any marketable olives. not only are all affected olive trees cut down because there's nothing to save economically except for the very expensive wood (of which there now is a time-limited glut like there was around the 70s with elm wood due to dutch elm disease, before it became very rare), but in many places, whole groves or entire towns' olive trees have been cut down. producing olive trees typically are in the high tens of years in age, while many olive trees in less modern production (not using machine harvesters that require relatively uniform tree shapes and neat rows) are in the mid hundredsnof years in age (olive trees can get much older than lmost any other . some mediterranean regions have lost over 80% of their olive trees, and thus the same if not a larger (due to partial weakening of remaining trees) portion of their olive production, which will take at least something like 30 years to regrow. a small minority of trees are proving resistant, so there are pretty good hopes for replanting. but for now and the next few decades to come, europe's olive industry is ruined. droughts do weaken plants and make all sorts of infections worse, but the situation with europe's olives is that the primary threat is x. fastidiosa. drought rather is a lesser contributing factor.
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