Curious Cook: Facing up to climate change

Climate change affects crops, and disrupts food production. — Filepic

There is a little book on climate change that everyone should read. It is only 60-odd pages, written by a young Swedish lady called Greta Thunberg and in it, she questions why our societies are ignoring the warnings from a growing majority of scientists.

There are many scientific warnings about how we humans as a species are indiscriminately destroying our own natural environments. This has caused the extinction rate of life to be around 5,000 times the natural rate of extinction – the natural rate of extinction if human activities are absent would be less than one per year, so humans are probably causing the extinction of some 2,000 species a year, perhaps more.