Food becoming more calorific but less nutritious due to rising carbon dioxide. Researchers noticed ‘dramatic’ changes in nutrients in crops, including drop in zinc and rise in lead.

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1. Not only will our infrastructure be damaged, but so too are our bodies weaker and children deprived of nutrients. 

   I’ve always felt climate change was a plot to make us all weaker and poorer, for… no good reason at all. This whole thing is just stupid. . 

2. The soils are depleted, co2 isn’t the main culprit, industrial ‘fertilizers’ are.

3. Confidently wrong as to what the cause is

4. The studies that show nutrient drop in food are based on keeping fertilisers the same as yield potential rises. What a real world good farmer would do is match fertilisers to yield potential and would increase fertilisers to balance with that higher yield potential.

5. Average of 3.2% drop, hardly dramatic apart from the zinc…so less starvation but more zinc deficiency.

6. The plants they are growing now all have less nutrients and minerals compared to before but the yields are much more

7. Well that’s cool. Add it to the pile of extinction events building up down the line

8. The paper is [here](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.70568)

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