Carbon Foodprint

Human diets are getting less healthy. Even the human diets that aren’t changing at all. “Surging concentrations of carbon in the atmosphere, caused largely by burning fossil fuels, have produced potent changes in the way plants grow — from increasing their sugar content to depleting essential nutrients like zinc. Experts fear the degradation of Earth’s food supply will cause an epidemic of hidden hunger, in which even people who consume enough calories won’t get the nutrients they need to thrive.” WaPo (Gift Article): The invisible force making food less nutritious. “People in wealthy countries with strong health care systems will have many tools to cope with the change, experts said. But for the world’s poorest and most vulnerable, the consequences could be devastating.”