Comments by "Holger P." (@holger_p) on "Europe's Farmland Has A Huge Problem" video.

It's less influence on culture as you think. In the last decades, imports already have increased. Wheat is imported, Animal food is imported, Farmland has been used to what gives the best price (wine, artichoques, ..) - not to what is consumed locally. Did the decline of wheat production left a "cultural void" no. You didn't notice. It will be imported in future also. Maybe Sweden has more farmland than population. Or scotland or Island.
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@eastcorkcheeses6448 No, in the last 2000 years there have been only little and temporary shifts. Due to Volcano activity there have been sometimes a dark cold decade before it came back to normal. It's supposed to happen arround 1660. Something worse was the big irish potato desease around 1850, or the plague. Never so much the climate.
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@johnfreeman7921 In the personal meaning yes. Some people will experience shocks in their biography, scientifically spoken. But i mean their is not reason to worry "we are all going to starve", "mankind is going to be extinguished" etc. In the more global view, everything justs moves somewhere else. Same as textile industry moved somewhere else. A generation of needlewomen had to find another job, or retire early or whatsover, but their was no change for the consumer or for the supply.
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Europe also has shifted entire shoe and textile industry to Asia or Turkey. Such changes in industry do happen. The dependency to other areas is a risk, but it does not cause any collapse by itself. I just checked the number for Germany. Share of Agriculture on GNP is 0.78%. It's not a "huge chunk".
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