But as ThinkProgress noted at the time, the real story was not a guacamole shortage, but the emerging reality of doing business in a warming world. While politicians continue to bicker over whether or not climate change exists, companies now have no choice in the matter — they must acknowledge the science and the risk and disclose the reality of that risk to their investors’ pocketbooks. Whether that risk actually manifests itself is another matter, but the fact that companies are increasingly putting climate change on their threat lists speaks volumes to the severity of the problem.
Here are seven other big food companies that disclose to investors that climate change poses a threat to their products and bottom lines.
Source: thinkprogress.org
Too bad these companies can’t bankroll enough congressmen to oppose the fossil fuel industry.
