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Some of our favorite foods and drinks could be considered "endangered" because the places where they are grown are being severely impacted by climate change. If this isn't proof that we need to do something about climate change, I don't know what is. To start off, here are a few foods that are part of our every lives that might not be around for long.
- Coffee
- Chocolate
- Beer
- Maple Syrup
- Seafood: Lobsters and Salmon
- Peanut Butter
- Potatoes
What can we do about it?
Some farmers and researchers have started looking into bringing back ancient or near-extinct crops that might be better suited for this new reality.
Amaranth is one example. Once considered a sacred grain by the Aztec, amaranth was banned by the Spanish because it was used in sacrificial ceremonies.
[...] Cultivated in Ethiopia for more than 7,000 years, the enset plant is known as the "false banana" because of its similarity to the banana tree. It can withstand heavy drought and heavy rain, making it a plant that can naturally withstand climate change. [It] produces two times more food per unit of land than cereal crops.
[...] While most plants making a comeback are known for being drought resistant and having a high tolerance for heat, other plants (like taro) can be grown in flooded areas, a concern for rising sea levels in Asia and other parts of the world.
[...] Some believe that [...] seed banks are the best way to prepare for climate change. John Torgrimson, executive director of the Seed Savers Exchange in the United States, told Truthout that "while not every traditional variety tastes great or looks great, its genetics may be invaluable 50 or 100 years from now when the climate is different. There are qualities in varieties that we don't even know about. It might be resistant to a particular disease; it may grow well in a particular region; it may have certain traits that will allow us to deal with climactic conditions going forward. Diversity is an insurance policy".
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @01:27PM
What can we do about it?
No need "to do" something: there is no such thing as "climate change".
There is no evidence for "climate change". There is only hear-say, wikipedia pages and politician's rhetorics to keep the populace scared, subdued and obedient.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @02:02PM
There is no evidence for death; only extended sleep. There is only hear-say, wikipedia pages and politician's rhetorics to keep the populace scared, subdued and obedient.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @04:16PM
No, you are wrong. There IS evidence for death. It is called decay and aposynthesis.
Now crawl back to your hole, and tell your globalist master scum that rebranding "global warming" as "climate change" is not going to work, nor will any of the rest of NASA bullshit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @07:39PM
...chiefly, the hoaxed moon landings.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @09:27PM
tell your globalist master scum that rebranding "global warming" as "climate change" is not going to work
Hm, I thought that deniers demanded the renaming, because calling it global warming is "alarmist"? You know, like calling torture "enhanced interrogation" suddenly makes it not a war crime. I guess that for some people rose by any other name would not smell as sweet.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @05:05PM
No need "to do" something: there is no such thing as "climate change".
Right on, my (obviously) white brother!
"Climate change" is just a bunch of hogwash made up by a bunch of lib'rul hippies and the darkies they hang around with.
The problem isn't "climate change" it's overpopulation.
That's why I'm voting for the only candidate who tells it like it is! Donald J. em-effin' Trump!
He's gonna put all those pot smoking dirty hippies in their place. Which is up against the wall to get a lesson in Newton's second law of motion, as demonstrated by flying lead!
And he's gonna make sure those darkies stop being so uppity, or they'll get what the hippies got.
Once we kill off two or three billion (we can start with all those ragheads in India -- bunch of Muzzie scum, all of them!) and work our way to the Middle East, and then make sure to take care of the wetbacks too. Then comes the homeland of the niggers, Africa!
We'll need something more selective for China, as we want those fucking slants to make our sneakers and send us more LBFMs [xvideos.com]. In fact, everyone should own a few.
Once we get the overpopulation problem dealt with, we'll be all set!
Because were going to Make America Great Again™!
Trump/Pence 2016!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @06:17PM
Seek professional help. Fast.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Monday October 03 2016, @09:33PM
Yes, but when there are no more:
French fries, Reese's pieces, mocha coffee, pancakes with Canadian Maple Syrup AND peanut butter, potatoes lyonnaise/au gratin, sandwiches with mayo in it, etc.
We're coming to kill you :)
That's the price of your belief. When all of your brothers and sisters are looking at you for not standing up with us, and we all suffer the stark realization that the aforementioned food just became literally super rich people's food, we're going to brutally fucking kill you. Then possibly eat you. This future is a culinary Dystopia, but then so are most Dystopias, but this one even more so.
Why did we lose the tasty food? You were too fucking stupid and easily played by the elites to realize that we must change soon, or the world will start changing must faster than we can handle, and in ways we simply cannot handle. All so the elites can make a little more money.
Greed will take it all from us. Thanks, asshole.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by khallow on Monday October 03 2016, @09:43PM
Yes, but when there are no more:
French fries, Reese's pieces, mocha coffee, pancakes with Canadian Maple Syrup AND peanut butter, potatoes lyonnaise/au gratin, sandwiches with mayo in it, etc.
We're coming to kill you :)
Bring it on, internet tough guy. The reality is that the crops will just be grown somewhere else. This concern over disappearing crops that can easily be planted elsewhere is so stupid it's not worth respect. Surely, you use your brain for something other than heating your skull.
And with the amount of psychopathy you routinely display with your posts, don't you have something to do, like run a corporation into the ground? I keep hearing how easy it is for psychopaths to become CEOs of major corporations. Surely, you could use your positive outlook on life for good not evil.