Aug 22, 2006

Global Warming to Slam Food Supply


Suppose the dinner on your table last night had cost 20 times what it did? Or 50 times as much?

The agricultural abundance Americans have long taken for granted and the low food prices that go with it, they say, now face a withering enemy — and the recent blows to California agriculture are a taste of things to come.


The threat to the state's $30 billion agriculture industry has farmers and legislators battling over differing ideas about how to deal with what climatologists tell them future temperatures in the Golden State will likely be before mid-century.


Interesting ABC news to read



Also a good book on it linked here (Outgrowing the Earth)