HOTB 249: The unexpected consequences of climate change on our food supply

Healing Outside The Box

One of the (perhaps not so obvious) consequences of organic gardening is keeping the four-legged critters from eating what we grow. But much more serious is the consequence that climate change has on growing large scale food for our planet. We know about the floods and droughts, but what about the nutritional quality of our edibles? Today I look at this scary problem that is happening right under our noses.

There was a mind-blowing article in politico from 2017 that talks about decreases in nutrient levels due to rising CO2 levels. That article can be found here.

Harvard.edu has a short but not so sweet article on this issue as well. It can be found here.

I summarized a detailed sciencey article from the journal, Nature. That article can be found here.

This article in Advances in Science talks about how climate change can affect the diversity of edible plant species.

In this episode, I talked about my review of a documentary called "the need to grow". That was episode 242 and it can be found here.

As always, if you have any questions about today's episode or would like to sign up for nutrition counseling with me, you can contact me on my website, Which Is Healing outside the box.