How Climate Change Impacts Your Nutritional Health

The effects of climate change hit our planet hard, but they could be hitting our bodies even harder. In 2017 alone, climate shocks and extreme weather led to emergency-level food insecurity. As global undernourishment grows and already affecting 821 million people, we are faced with a disturbing reality.

At the current rate, by 2050 the effects of climate change on our food systems could result in decreased food availability worldwide, skyrocketed food costs, and 4.8 million more undernourished children. Even now, climate change is already affecting the production of wheat and rice — overuse of chemicals in farming, excessive land tilling, and use of heavy machinery. This not only damages farmland, but exposes carbon into the soil and air creating more CO2. As the cycle continues, more greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere diminished field productivity as staple food crops become less nutritious from the high volumes of CO2 contributing to already 2 billion people globally facing nutrient deficiencies.

While climate change ravages our earth and environment, it’s our bodies, health, and nutrition that are also affected. Take a look at this infographic for more on the state of climate change, how it’s affecting farming procedures, world health, and what it will take to reverse these damages.