Sam Kass

Well, I think the health of ourselves as humans and the health of the planet are inextricably linked.

And climate change, which, of course, food and ag is a major driver of.

is starting to decimate our capacity to feed ourselves.

And the future is pretty scary when you start to see what the models look like in terms of our ability to grow the basic foods that we consume every day and some of the implications behind that.

So for me, it's one big set of issues that we have to grapple with.

But if we don't solve climate, all of the other things we care about in food are going to be

just deeply impacted.

And a lot of the progress that we've made are just going to be undermined by climate.

Our oceans are really on the front lines of climate change.

In the Pacific Northwest, two years ago, they closed the snow crab fishery for the first time in its history.

They did that because that fishery had gone from 11.7 billion crabs in 2018 to

to 1.9 billion last year.

That's over an 80% collapse of that population in just five years.

Now, there was hope that, you know, nature is resilient and that population will rebound.

But just about a month ago, officials announced that that fishery would be closed for the second straight year because the population just had not recovered.

That absolutely decimates those fishermen who have depended on that fishing grounds for generations.

Now, let's turn to fruit.

That beautiful little peach jam in the little mozzarella cup you had.

Last year, we lost 95% of the Georgia peach crop.

95%.