General Mills Warns Climate Change Will Lead To Global Food Shortages

[tecelote]

"We believe every company, government and individual has a role to play. Climate change is a shared, global challenge that is best addressed at scale."

In a rebuff to climate deniers, the CEO of American food giant General Mills has asserted that global warming is being created by human activity and is threatening to disrupt global food supplies.

Announcing that the company has set a goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent over the next decade across its value chain, from farm to fork to landfill, Ken Powell told The Associated Press: “We think that human-caused greenhouse gas causes climate change and climate volatility and that's going to stress the agricultural supply chain, which is very important to us. Obviously we depend on that for our business, and we all depend on that for the food we eat."

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[dieter]

1. So now that it might infringe on profits it's real.

Ah yes, only when money/profit is in jeopardy do the multinationals begin to take climate change seriously.

Not exactly surprised.

[tecelote]

6. Yeah - I took it as a positive for climate change...

but, I wish they would also worry about glyphosate and other pesticides poisoning our land along with the destruction of wilderness for agriculture.

As you say, profit is king.

[Hydra]

9. Of course

The local Ski Areas are all pushing green hard- because their snow is disappearing and wildfires are eating their slopes.

Nobody took it seriously until it ate into their livelyhood.

[jberryhill]

2. I believe it is unlikely humans are going to do anything meaningful about climate change

Climate change is going to impose its own solution, and it's not going to be a matter of debate.

[Hydra]

10. It's probably too late already

As you say, reality will impose its own solution.

[Hekate]

3. This is important, coming from General Mills. Eventually the only climate deniers will be...

....the coal and oil industries.

[Facility Inspector]

4. Soylent Green is made from the finest sea plankton

yeah, right.

[0rganism]

5. which in turn will lead to higher prices for General Mills' products

thus justifying the obscene amount of money they will donate to climate change-denying candidates in 2016.

[TBF]

7. Bingo - except that will probably just use it

for CEO bonuses.

[0rganism]

8. no reason they can't do both

GMills announces climate change will cause food scarcity
GMills begins work on new retail cost structure for products to align with predicted raw food availability levels
GMills gives obscenely huge bonuses to VPs and corporate officers, especially those in charge of planning the new "scarcity profit paradigm"
GMills VPs and corporate officers invisibly donate large amounts of money to the Ted Cruz and Scott Walker superPACs

Mission Accomplished.

[Shandris]

11. Hmm.

General Mills, which will invest more than $100 million in energy efficiency and clean energy within its own facilities worldwide, last year became a member of Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy (BICEP), a leading advocacy coalition of businesses committed to working with policymakers to pass climate and energy legislation. It also joined competitors such as Unilever and Nestlé, by signing BICEP’s Climate Declaration, which states, “We cannot risk our kids’ futures on the false hope that the vast majority of scientists are wrong.”

What big business, in the history of big business, has ever -- EVER -- committed to a 'policy goal' to 'pass legislation' that wasn't 100% about increasing their profits? If any good comes from the legislation at all, it will only be because there's a hidden kickback or payoff elsewhere.

Sounds good, but the scam just isn't visible yet. And there IS a scam in it somewhere, else these people would in no way join in.

((Erm...to be clear, the 'scam' I'm referring to is their sudden switch on policy, not the topic of climate change itself, obviously.))