LA Times: Climate Change is NOT Taking Food Off Y our Table
2 days ago Eric Worrall 12 Comments
Essay by Eric Worrall
How times have changed – a major Californian news outlet publishing a climate skeptic article.
Bjorn Lomborg
Climate change isn’t taking food off your table
No morning ritual is safe from climate alarm. In June, the journal Nature declaredthat coffee is “critically threatened by climate change” and described scientists racing to save your espresso from “extinction.” The New York Times blames sky-high coffee prices on climate-driven supply crunches in Brazil and Vietnam. And your olive oil? CNN and Bloomberg wail about a seemingly permanent “crisis,” with Mediterranean droughts foretelling a future in which an everyday staple vanishes for good.
The message is unmistakable: Global warming is coming for your family’s dinner table, and only sweeping climate policy can save it. The message is also wrong. Cut through the hype and food is both more plentiful and cheaper today, after adjusting for inflation, than it was during almost all of the 20th century.
Start with coffee, supposedly on its deathbed. This year, global coffee production is expected to set yet another record — more than double the world’s output of 50 years ago. Crops on the brink of extinction don’t deliver record harvests. And despite recent price bumps, the real price of coffee has trended downward since 1960. Adjusted for inflation, coffee this century has cost on average half of what it cost in the last century.
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