A Future Without Potatoes

One of the things we don't talk much about when it comes to our climate changing is the changes our biome will make at the same time. Animals are migrating further north as things warm up. Another thing that we should think about is the changes that will come to agriculture. Many foods that are grown depend on particular environmental conditions to flourish.

Recently the United Nations committee on world food security issued a report on the effects of global warming. The group analyzed the effects of climate change on 22 of the world’s key agricultural staples, as well as three important natural resources in the developing world. While much is still conjecture, the experts agree on one thing: crops may not be able to grow where they had been grown for many generations.

One of the suggestions was that we would perhaps have to give up potatoes and replace them with bananas.

Here is a link to the Time and the BBC articles and the on this.