Reaping what we sow

• Autores: Irakli Loladze
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3068, 2016, págs. 18-19
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Here, Loladze warns that staple foods are in nutritional decline as a result of loading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide (CO2). Rising CO2 depletes protein and minerals in most food that underpins human nutrition across the world. Sceptics like to claim that rising CO2 is a boon because it boosts crop yields. But as USDA scientist Lewis Ziska put it "elevated CO2 could be junk food" for some plant species. There really is no such thing as a free lunch with climate change