Environment: Changing Climate Threatens to Disrupt Agriculture

Melting ice caps, dead coral and flooded coastal cities may get the press, but global warming will also cause spectacular dislocations in agriculture, although according to a study by the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies the overall effect nationally could be an increase in productivity worth $1.1 billion a year. If their analysis is correct, however, the economies of some states will take major hits, with the biggest losers being Colorado (a debit in the agricultural sector of $610 million a year), Oklahoma ($-580 million), and California, which stands to lose a staggering $2.4 billion dollars in annual revenue from agriculture.

If you get a chance to buy stock in Soylent Green, do it now.

In fact, this might be the right time to introduce Soylent Green as a product, so the marketplace will be ready for it when the time comes. Frank Perdue or his ilk could probably come up with something from the seeds and stems left behind by that industry's production methods. Like anything else, it's all in the marketing: "Made from chicken. Tastes like people."

The Economic Impacts of Climate Change: Evidence from Agricultural Output and Random Fluctuations in Weather(pdf).