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Allie Wist, 29, an associate art Log Splitter at Saveur magazine, attempts to answer that question in her latest art project, "Flooded." It's a fictional photo essay (based on real scientific data) about a dinner party menu at a time when climate change has significantly altered our diets. Wist has been following news about climate change with a growing sense of urgency. Global temperatures have risen in recent decades and extreme weather – droughts, floods, hurricanes – is more common.
Sea levels are rising, causing coastal erosion and flooding and even the disappearance of in the South Pacific. Our oceans are becoming more acidic from dissolved carbon dioxde, hurting marine life. And, in some parts of the world, farmers are struggling with unpredictable growing seasons. Climate change has "become this future vision that's right in front of us," Wist says. The fishing village of Nueva Venecia is situated in a lake deep in the marshlands of northwestern Colombia. The marshlands could be inundated with ocean water by 2100, if sea levels rise by 3 feet or more as projected by scientists. But the issue is a politicized one in the United States, she says. Many people don't believe climate change is real.
And many find it difficult to understand, because it's too abstract. "I felt this need to subversively convince people," Wist says. "I wanted to hook them more emotionally, with something they can relate to." So she chose food. "It is so integral to how we see ourselves and how we live every day," she says. Climate change is already having an effect on food production. In 2011, a study in Science found in the world's wheat and corn production. As global temperatures rise, some places will become more favorable for agriculture, while many others will become too hot and dry to grow crops.
Extreme weather will also influence food prices, as we saw in 2010-2011, when drought in some parts of the world and unusually big cyclones and floods in others . Warmer ocean temperatures have and will continue to affect fisheries. All this means we might be forced to change what we eat in the coming decades, says Wist. People "have to start to realize that their daily activities could change, will change, because of this thing that they consider abstract," she says. A dinner plate floats in New York City's East River. "