"Real mess in syria began after the agriculture did crumble. global warning is guilty. We westerners and our polluting habits are guilty."
Please shut the fuck up. If this was actually the driving factor or the sole cause as you seem to think it is, you would be seeing civil wars everywhere.
"In 1981, as in the 1970s, 53 percent of the population was still classified as rural, although movement to the cities continued to accelerate. However, in contrast to the 1970s, when 50 percent of the labor force was employed in agriculture, by 1983 agriculture employed only 30 percent of the labor force. Furthermore, by the mid-1980s, unprocessed farm products accounted for only 4 percent of exports, equivalent to 7 percent of non-petroleum exports. Industry, commerce, and transportation still depended on farm produce and related agro-business, but agriculture's preeminent position had clearly eroded. By 1985 agriculture (including a little forestry and fishing) contributed only 16.5 percent to GDP, down from 22.1 percent in 1976." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Syria
So notice a few things:
1. with industrialization a larger percentage of the population is able to lead a non-agrarian life, they can afford to have a society where most people aren't just farmers
You wanna get rid of fossils fuels? Then prepare for a much harder life.
2. they actually exported some farm products (why would they do that if they're needed so badly inside the country?)
3. Even in 1985 agriculture was only 16.5% of GDP and was dropping every year, so even if they have a food shortage, they have the means to just import food (at least they did BEFORE the war started)
Hell nobody in my family does agriculture. It's 0% of household income. By your logic I guess we're all starving LOL.
You know another place where agriculture is hard to do? Alaska - yeah, not seeing a civil war there yet. Or any time soon.
Economies adapt, worst case scenario they import the food if they can be productive in other ways.
