How big is the verge?

This sort of thing has happened before and this book sets out a good overview of how the West handled it last time https://www.amazon.co.uk/Little-Ice-Age-Revised-1300-1850/dp...

But crops, like soy beans a staple food, are being bred with lower omega (3 & 6) oil content, to reduce storage costs because omega oils will go rancid quickly and spoil the crop.

And if there was a shortage of food then farmers wouldn't be growing crops to burn in biomass PowerStation's.

Nasa data suggests we are heading back into a Grand Solar Minimum from around 2020/2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_minimum We already have a solar minimum every 11 years due to the solar cycle. Reading this book, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Little-Ice-Age-Climate-1300-1850/dp... not only will make you have a complete rethink of European history, but you will probably come away with the conclusion that "No sunspots = extreme weather". This weather can be unseasonable, ie too hot or too cold. If a grand solar minimum is on the cards, food security and famine are biggest risks because back during the medieval ice age, its thought 25% of the global population died due to famine and cold. Crop yields were such that lets say 1 field would support a family back then, today same field (or area)would support say 15 families due to higher crop yields, better agrichemicals and so on. So when weather destroys the crop in a field, more people are affected today. Now whilst technology can offset some risks, ie mass flooding, heatwave, snow, or freezing events take place more often, things can get interesting from a "preppers" perspective, if food security risks affect a population. Then you need to ask yourself where do you want to live? A society where its every man for themselves or one where collaboration and social inclusion is the norm?

It's really a matter of deciding when is the start of the Little Ice Age. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age Some put it at the end of the medieval warn period, others hundreds of years later. I favor 1315, because over the period of a few years the climate of Europe tanked for hundreds of years. Of course a 1315 date argues for the cause being a long solar minimum and not reforestation.

My opinion was greatly influenced by Brian Fagan: The Little Ice Age, http://www.amazon.com/Little-Ice-Age-Climate-1300-1850/dp/04....