Climate Change and Health: Food Security
Greenhouse operators have known for a long time that raising CO2 levels to a little beyond 1000ppm will boost plant growth and yield by way more than 40%. The plants not only grow quicker, they grow a lot stronger, but they also grow bigger and their tissue quality rises enormously. CO2 is a fundamental building block of life on earth. We are currently living in a low carbon environment and this is the single biggest threat to feeding the world. And also to nature and all species as large scale desertification is also one of the consequences of low CO2. Look 200 Million years ago when CO2 was closer to 2000ppm. It was the lushest and greenest period of Earths history. Deserts just did not exist. We are living on a dying planet – it’s the planet itself that brings that about. Human CO2 gives us a new boost in the right direction, but we seem to be so bent on suicide that we want to go back to the ultra-low CO2 world that kills us. Idiocracy indeed …
It’s clear that the climate crisis poses a very real threat to food security across the globe. If no action is taken, millions — perhaps billions — of people are at risk of malnutrition as staple crops and other fruits and vegetables become harder to grow, more expensive, and less nutritious.
