Claim: Climate Crisis Food Price Inflation Delivered Victory to President Trump
by Eric Worrall
Nothing to do with Biden and Kamala…
Rising food prices driven by climate crisis threaten world’s poorest, report finds
High cost of staples due to extreme weather could lead to more malnutrition, political upheaval and social unrest
Sarah Butler
Mon 21 Jul 2025 09.01 AEST
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New research links last year’s surges in the price of potatoes in the UK, cabbages in South Korea, onions in India, and cocoa in Ghana to weather extremes that “exceeded all historical precedent prior to 2020”.
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It found food price spikes can have a wider economic impact, making it harder for economies to keep down overall inflation and so, for example, bring interest rates down. A hot dry spring in the UK this year, for example, partly drove unexpectedly high UK inflation figures published last week, dampening expectations for further interest rate cuts this summer.
The report also suggests “high rates of inflation can directly alter election outcomes in modern democracies”.
Maximilian Kotz, a Marie Curie postdoctoral research fellow at Barcelona Supercomputing Center and the lead author of the report, said: “It is clear the cost of living played a role in last year’s election in the US.”
He added: “These effects are going to continue to become worse in the future. Until we get to net zero emissions extreme weather will only get worse, but it’s already damaging crops and pushing up the price of food all over the world.
“People are noticing, with rising food prices No 2 on the list of climate impacts they see in their lives, second only to extreme heat itself.
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The study referenced by the article (I think);
Climate extremes, food price spikes, and their wider societal risks
Maximilian Kotz, Markus Donat, Tom Lancaster, Miles Parker, Pete Smith, Anna Taylor Smith and Sylvia H Vetter
Accepted Manuscript online 13 June 2025 • © 2025 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd
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