Monoculture: not even once.

Woohoo wet bulb temps in a heat dome thanks to modern agriculture, looking forward to an eventual news story about thousands dying from heatstroke in the midwest!

And I'm guessing like 90% the corn is food for livestock.

Oh neat we get to have Dustbowl II to go with the rest of our interwar period, just like last time! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

The hottest part of the map in north-central Iowa was once pristine wetlands that had managed to survive destruction by settlers.

Until literal Nazi prisoners of war helped drain what was left during WW2.

How long till we get popcorn from the heat?

"Behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Corn followed with him."

i like popcorn but it make my tummy hurt

Humanity will never be able to do terraforming!

This word has seamlessly found its way into my vocab and I learned it a day ago

corn was a bad dude

Huh. Is this a problem in terms of something we have to change for climate change? Or is it a compounding factor that makes the experience of climate change worse that would be fine in the absence of other things like greenhouse gasses?

I'm not kidding the corn has been boiling me like a sauna. When I go outside my glasses fog up.

Wow, really fucked up to dismiss the usefulness of corn. It's also for Doritos and Coca Cola.