The great nutrient collapse

[Fweethawt]

http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/09/13/food-nutrients-carbon-dioxide-000511?lo=ap_a1

 

The atmosphere is literally changing the food we eat, for the worse. And almost nobody is paying attention.

[LogicalFallacy]

Oooh so we might not be just changing the climate, but the food we eat as well.

 

This could well put a dent in the "CO2 is good for plants" argument as mentioned in the article.

[pantheory]

The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is .04 percent, not 4 percent, but 4 parts per 10,000 by volume, or 400 parts per million. Not very much. Yes, a little bit more can make a difference in temperature, so it has been asserted, but plants thrive on CO2 that all can observe based upon their faster growth when they border freeways, if they get enough water.

 

Their argument of reduced nutrition from increased growth is possible, but IMO the difference in nutrition, if valid, would be small and nothing to be concerning about in the foreseeable future, nothing at all like the harbinger statement "great nutrient collapse."

 

[★ Citsonga ★]

On 9/15/2017 at 4:34 PM, pantheory said:

Their argument of reduced nutrition from increased growth is possible, but IMO the difference in nutrition, if valid, would be small and nothing to be concerning about in the foreseeable future, nothing at all like the harbinger statement "great nutrient collapse."

 

But something like "the negligible nutrient change" wouldn't be an attention grabber like "the great nutrient collapse."