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The Great Carbohydrate Injection into the Biosphere: more calories, less nutrients, & unknown health risks
GUEST SPEAKER DR. IRAKLI LOLADZE will talk about his findings that rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels (CO2) decrease the concentrations of minerals essential for human nutrition, including iron and zinc, in plants globally. After years of compiling data, in 2014 he published a meta-analysis revealing a pervasive and systemic downshift in mineral levels in plants worldwide. His research came to influence US policy and was highlighted by New Scientist, Nature, Science, and in a two-times award winning article in Politico.
DR. IRAKLI LOLADZE
Speaker website: https://sites.google.com/site/loladze/home
In the news: “The Great Nutrient Collapse”. The atmosphere is literally changing the food we eat, for the worse. And almost nobody is paying attention. By Helena Bottemiller Evich, 09/13/2017, Politico
https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/09/13/food-nutrients-carbon-dioxide-000511/
Bio: Irakli Loladze is a Mathematical Biologist. He obtained his MA and PhD degrees in mathematics at Arizona State University. He then worked as a postdoc at Princeton University, where in 2002 he postulated that rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels (CO2) decrease the concentrations of minerals essential for human nutrition, including iron and zinc, in plants globally. After years of compiling data, in 2014 he published a meta-analysis revealing a pervasive and systemic downshift in mineral levels in plants worldwide. His research came to influence US policy and was highlighted by New Scientist, Nature, Science, and in a two-times award winning article in Politico. In 2019, Loladze and collaborators showed that rising CO2 levels result in lower levels of plant carotenoids critical for human eye and brain health.
