The Climate Change Gourmet
Climate change will change how you eat
Rachel Layne, Decmber 8, 2017 (CBS MoneyWatch)
“…[Climate change] is also making itself felt on a smaller scale, like your dinner plate…[R]ising global temperatures are already affecting the world's food supply, shifting production of some popular items, like certain kinds of seafood, and raising the price of staples like beef, wheat and coffee. Over the longer term, such trends are likely to alter what Americans eat. And depending on where you live and what you can afford, your food may also become less nutritious…Repeated droughts around the world also are destroying enough farm produce to feed 81 million people for a year and are four times more costly for economies than flood, the World Bank found… in a recent study. Beyond hindering food production, erratic rainfall patterns and longer droughts are causing a host of problems for cities, including businesses…By 2050, surface temperatures on the planet are predicted to rise between 1.9 degrees and 2.6 degrees Celsius…That will eventually change how and where the four most-eaten grain crops -- wheat, rice, maize (corn) and soybean, which combined account for two-thirds of human caloric intake -- are produced…[And because of one of the myriad feedback loops between people and the planet, foods] generate climate-changing greenhouse gasses…Beef, lamb, butter, shellfish, cheese, asparagus, pork, veal, chicken and turkey top the list of foods whose production produce require the most climate-damaging resources…” click here for more
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