I fear that you've been misinformed on climate change's impact on agriculture. According to the 2018 National Climate Assessment[0], a rigorous accounting of climate change's impact on the United States by 13 federal agencies [1]:
"Rising temperatures, extreme heat, drought, wildfire on rangelands, and heavy downpours are expected to increasingly disrupt agricultural productivity in the United States. Expected increases in challenges to livestock health, declines in crop yields and quality, and changes in extreme events in the United States and abroad threaten rural livelihoods, sustainable food security, and price stability. "
Higher carbon and a warmer climate is going to mean smaller and less nutritious harvests, and food crises the world over. It is in your own self-interest to want rapid decarbonization.
Also, you may not have heard that many climate policies call for a border carbon adjustment, which puts a WTO-compliant fee on imports from countries that are not effectively curbing their emissions. Well-designed national climate policies generally include this, as it largely addresses your valid concerns about making other countries play fair.
Here's more[2] from NASA on it the impacts of climate change on agriculture.
"Rising temperatures, extreme heat, drought, wildfire on rangelands, and heavy downpours are expected to increasingly disrupt agricultural productivity in the United States. Expected increases in challenges to livestock health, declines in crop yields and quality, and changes in extreme events in the United States and abroad threaten rural livelihoods, sustainable food security, and price stability. "
Higher carbon and a warmer climate is going to mean smaller and less nutritious harvests, and food crises the world over. It is in your own self-interest to want rapid decarbonization.
Also, you may not have heard that many climate policies call for a border carbon adjustment, which puts a WTO-compliant fee on imports from countries that are not effectively curbing their emissions. Well-designed national climate policies generally include this, as it largely addresses your valid concerns about making other countries play fair.
Here's more[2] from NASA on it the impacts of climate change on agriculture.
[0] https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/#sf-10 [1] NOAA, the DOA, DOC, DOD, DOE, HHS, DOI, DOS, DOT, EPA, NASA, NSF, Smithsonian Institution, and the USAID [2] https://climate.nasa.gov/news/3124/global-climate-change-imp...