Essay by Eric Worrall
European climate activists seem determined to turn a bad season into a famine crisis.
If We Don’t Act Now on Climate Change, Nothing Else Will Matter
Category :ENVIRONMENT
October 10, 2026Let’s face it: drought isn’t just about dry riverbeds or yellow lawns anymore. These days, it’s turning up everywhere—from our dinner plates to our faucets, even right inside our homes. In this fourth episode of our summer series, biologist Marc-André Selosse takes us on a real-life tour of how drought is already reshaping daily life across France—and, spoiler alert, the consequences won’t be stopping at stained grass.
Drought on Our Plates and in Our Supermarkets
The first cracks are not just in the fields, but in what ends up on our tables. The Federation of Trade and Distribution (which brings together most of France’s big retail players) announced on August 18th that they would now welcome “ugly” fruits and vegetables onto their shelves. That’s right: the exceptional drought across France has pushed supermarkets to be more tolerant. Fruits and veggies once considered too small or unattractive—the kind your grandma used to stew—are finding their place in the produce aisle.
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This move is partly to keep a lid on soaring prices, which come as a result of massive drops in agricultural yields. According to French Vegetable Producers, losses are running from 25% to 50%—sometimes even hitting 100% for certain crops. That means tomatoes and cucumbers are reaching record prices in store, and forget about the cost of lettuce, which is especially thirsty for water.
…Repair and Hope: Individual and Systemic Responses
Our soils teem with life: not just plants, but bacteria, fungi, earthworms, insects—even moles. In our gardens, some good farming practices still apply:
- Disturb the soil as little as possible mechanically
- Avoid pesticides
- Feed the earth with a priority for organic fertilizers
And where do you and I have the greatest influence on soil? It’s in how we consume—specifically, what we buy. According to Selosse, France’s transition to soil-regenerating farming is lagging: only around 400 farms have made the switch, so the “Au Cœur des Sols” (Heart of Soils) label remains nowhere to be seen on store shelves.
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Read more: https://www.futura-sciences.com/en/if-we-dont-act-now-on-climate-change-nothing-else-will-matter_38730/#google_vignette
Can you imagine yourselves in the shoes of European and British farmers who have to deal with this nonsense?
Not only are you desperately trying to scavenge the fertiliser, agricultural chemicals and water your farm desperately needs, you have to deal with greens campaigning for you to revert to medieval agricultural techniques – fertilising your fields with manure and other organic processes, rather than the truck loads of chemicals which are the foundation of modern agricultural yields.
And since its Europe, there is a real chance someone in authority will listen to this green babble, and try to act on it. WUWT has already reported multiple attempts by ignorant bureaucrats to sabotage European agriculture through their arrogant insistence on organic farming practices.
Ayn Rand predicted this kind of regulatory lunacy in her book “Atlas Shrugged” – the complete failure of self involved activists and bureaucrats to respond rationally to a crisis. One of the pivotal events in the book was how despite everything farmers had successfully harvested a bumper crop of wheat. But all the trains which were meant to collect the harvested wheat were diverted by a well connected government crony to an experimental soybean plantation, leading to the loss of the wheat crop.
There is a real risk people will go hungry in 2027. Oil and fertiliser price rises due to disruption from the Persian Gulf crisis, combined with the West’s immense unpreparedness for a disruption to oil supply and fertiliser thanks to decades of green lunacy and the war on refineries, has led to farmers cutting back on food production. In addition if the coming El Nino does mess up agriculture in Australia, South America and the West Coast of the USA, Europe could be in for a very hard year.
The last thing Europe needs is greens adding to the pressure on supply chains and agricultural production with their organic farming and fertiliser / pesticide obsessions.
