8 foods you're about to lose due to climate change | Vital Signs | The Guardian
What does climate change taste like?
It’s an odd question, but an increasingly pertinent one.
After all, as temperatures rise and extreme weather becomes the norm, many food production systems are becoming threatened.
As that trend increases, it’s worth asking which foods consumers will have to cut back on – or abandon entirely.
Here’s a list of the foods to enjoy now – while they’re comparatively plentiful.
Corn (and the animals that eat it)
Water shortages and warmer temperatures are bad news for corn: in fact, a global rise in temperatures of just 1C (1.8F) would slow the rate of growth by 7%.
The impact of a disruption in corn production would extend far beyond the produce section at the supermarket. A great deal of US corn goes to feed livestock, so lower corn yields could mean higher meat prices, and fewer servings of meat per capita.
Big, long list of food that gonna be gone baby, gone!
Unless we turn over our wallets, our kids future earnings and oodles of political power over to Al, Barry and those saints at the UN.
Kinda scary, huh?
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