We'll lose a lot more than that sedentary subsistence pattern. The earth's ability to sustain a population of now over 8 billion souls depends on stable agriculture. Plant-based diets would help but the earth's carrying capacity for hunter-gatherers is about 200 million.
Famine on such a large scale will not be a pretty picture.
David Benfell, Ph.D. (he/him/his)
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