--- title: Why Major Food Companies Are Worried About Climate Change description: Why big food is worried about climate change, and you should be too. Also, saving Syria's lost generation and more. canonical: https://time.com/4130935/food-companies-climate-change/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-01T17:02:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:50.190Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why Major Food Companies Are Worried About Climate Change og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4130935/food-companies-climate-change/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Major Food Companies Are Worried About Climate Change twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why Major Food Companies Are Worried About Climate Change by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 1, 2015 5:02 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 1, 2015 5:02 PM UTC **1\.** [**Not sure how climate change affects you? Check the pantry.**](http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/12/01/456369536/as-big-food-feels-threat-of-climate-change-companies-speak-up) By Dan Charles at NPR **2\.** [**Can we save Syria’s ‘lost generation?’**](http://carnegieendowment.org/syriaincrisis/?fa=62126) By Maha Yahya and Maya Zreik at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace **3\.** [**You should talk to your kids about mental health.**](http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/01/parents-mental-health-children-depression) By Hannah Jane Parkinson in the Guardian **4\.** [**It’s not you: political journalism really is broken.**](https://medium.com/thoughts-on-media/it-s-not-you-political-journalism-really-is-broken-6931df867102#.u2koz6vcf) By Jonathan Stray in Thoughts on Media **5\.** [**Here’s why minority millennials can’t get ahead.**](http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/11/gifts-debts-inheritances/417423/) By Mel Jones in the Atlantic  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4130935/food-companies-climate-change/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4130935/food-companies-climate-change/"},"headline":"Why Major Food Companies Are Worried About Climate Change","datePublished":"2015-12-01T17:02:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:50.190Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4130935/food-companies-climate-change/","keywords":["Innovation","Millennials","Mental Health","politics","climate","Syria","Journalism"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4130935/food-companies-climate-change/","name":"Why Major Food Companies Are Worried About Climate Change"}}]}] ```