Sam Kass

And when you start to look at the models and how our environment is changing, in our lifetimes, I don't believe we'll be growing peaches in Georgia at all.

And what's Georgia without a peach?

But I'm going to go to a fruit that is even more important, at least to me.

And this is where these issues start to get pretty serious for me.

That fruit is wine.

The National Academy of Sciences predicts that by 2040, assuming we hit two degrees or if and when we hit two degrees, the world's wine growing regions will be cut in about half in terms of what can sustain wine.

Just a few weeks ago, one of the largest cava producers in Spain announced that they were laying off 80% of their workforce, about 615 people for a big operation, because they simply were not going to have grapes to harvest this year.

There are producers in Champagne that are buying land in England because they do not believe they will be able to make Champagne in Champagne in the foreseeable future.

Now, you know things are really bad when the French are buying land in England to make Champagne.

It's like, sound the alarm.

We got a problem here.

Oh, I wish I could stop there.

So let's keep going.

Let's talk about wheat and rice.

Staples.

So the world, 60% of the world's calories comes from wheat, rice, and corn.

60% from those three crops.

Those three crops keep life on planet Earth going.

So the warmer we get, the worse it's gonna be for yield.

The other part is, right now about 15% of the world's wheat is grown in persistent drought conditions.