It’s a Syndemic! Climate Change makes children eat junk food (they say)
By Jo Nova
Sob Sob. You awful sod. Because you drive a petrol car, somewhere there are children living off two minute noodles. If you only bought an EV, the kids might eat lettuce again.
At least that’s what you are supposed to think. The lines of evidence are so convoluted it took four experts to write this:
Climate crisis is affecting children’s nutrition
Wildfires, floods, and other extreme weather events are no longer the only ways in which climate change affects the lives of children around the world. Increasingly, its also impacting their diets. Droughts reduce agricultural production, floods cut off roads and disrupt supply chains, and rising prices limit families’ access to fruits, vegetables, and other fresh foods.
In this scenario, cheaper, longer-lasting products with low nutritional value are gaining ground, increasing the risk of two conditions that, at first glance, may seem contradictory: childhood obesity and malnutrition.
The truth is, Climate Change™ (the obsession) does cause childhood malnutrition. The countries which use less fossil fuels are generally the poorer ones, and poor people can’t afford to eat red sockeye salmon from Alaska.
https://joannenova.com.au/2026/09/its-a-syndemic-climate-change-makes-children-eat-junk-food-they-say/
