It’s coming. In the future. They think. But, we can solve this with a tax
Climate change could soon make these staple Thanksgiving dishes more scarce
Thanksgiving could soon become another victim of climate change as rising temperatures threaten the abundance and quality of the ingredients used to make traditional dishes seen year after year.
As a result, these essential food items could become increasingly scarce and more expensive, potentially forcing families to omit or make substitutions in key recipes on their Thanksgiving menus.
Produce is among the foods most affected by climate change, according to experts. As global temperatures rise and extreme weather events such as drought, heat waves and powerful storms occur more often, altering growing seasons and changing crop yield productions, according to experts.
These changes are causing harvest yields in Thanksgiving staple ingredients such as sweet potatoes and cranberries to decrease significantly, Himanshu Gupta, co-founder and CEO of ClimateAi, a climate adaptation platform for food and agricultural supply chains, told ABC News.
In some places sweet potato crops are down, in some they are up. Same with cranberries. Which is what happens Some years are great, some are so so, some are down. That’s the nature of farming. But, this is all still your fault. And, quite frankly, I don’t care, I cannot stand either of them.
There could be a time in the future where the constant demand for cranberries will not be able to be met during the Thanksgiving holiday, Gupta said.
Don’t care.
Data is showing that by 2060 Mississippi is going to see an 18% reduction in average yields of sweet potatoes and by 2070 North Carolina is going to see a 12% deduction in average yields of sweet potatoes, Gupta said.
An average Thanksgiving meal for a family of 10 rose 20% between 2021 and 2022 — from $53.31 to $64.05 — according to a report by the American Farm Bureau released last year. In 2020, the same meal cost an average of $46.90, according to the findings.
“Climate change is one of the most significant factors in driving that cost,” Gupta said.
Horseshit. The main factor is a weaponized coronavirus, a horrible response by government, and then the crummy policies of the Biden administration.
OK, cranberries for cranberry sauce is a necessity, but sweet potatoes? That is a ‘food’ with which we can easily do without.
Younger sister is providing the turkey and stuffing, older-than-her-but-younger-than-me will be bringing some sort of dish, Mrs Pico is making the pumpkin and other pies, sister-in-law is bringing the deviled eggses, because her favorite son will consume a dozen by himself, with my wife’s husband not too far behind, so that $64.05 is being spread around several households.
No, that’s Bidenflation, not
global warmingclimate change. Amazing how the media want to blame inflation on anything but a Democrat.The article must have been written by Chicken Little…
“Climate change could soon make these staple Thanksgiving dishes more scarce..’
“Could soon” Never right now. Always in the future. Why? Because they have to have a qualifier. Without that they become tied to a date. An actual predication… and they have become increasingly wary because all of their actual dated predictions have failed and people are taking note of that.
And we must always have an expert… “Produce is among the foods most affected by climate change, according to experts.”
And they never suggest that humans adapt and change what and where..
“As global temperatures rise and extreme weather events such as drought, heat waves and powerful storms occur more often, altering growing seasons and changing crop yield productions, according to experts.”
No, they never think of change… we will all just stand in one spot and die.
What idiot assholes these people are…. Or big time liars seeking to control us with wild claims.