Mother Jones mag: ‘Future Climate Means No More Breakfast’ – ‘Bad news not just
for farmers, but also for everyone who eats’ – Cites new study published in the journal Nature
“Looking at that 3 degrees centigrade warmer [than the year 2000] future corresponds to about a 13 percent loss in daily recommended per capita caloric consumption,” Andrew Hultgren, an agriculture researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, said. “That’s like everyone giving up breakfast … about 360 calories for each person, for each day.”
By Marc Morano
June 22, 2025
By Umair Irfan
Excerpt: A new study shows the devastating impact of climate change on crop yields by 2100.
Globally, humanity is producing more food than ever, but that harvest is concentrated in just a handful of bread baskets.
More than one-third of the world’s wheat and barley exports come from Ukraine and Russia, for example. Some of these highly productive farmlands, including major crop-growing regions in the United States, are on track to see the sharpest drops in harvests due to climate change.
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