As a result, we have disappearing ice caps, crackling forest fires and record rainfalls.
True, the butter mountains of old have disappeared, the CAP is shrinking and the EU does have a role to play in regulating agriculture.
But first, water: Would you like Alps runoff; pick of the disappearing polar ice cap, arrived just this morning via dog sled; New Zealand spring-fed — or are you just pretending to be successful and do you want tap?
Despite the record temperatures of 2012, the intensifying storms, droughts, wildfires and other wild weather events, the disappearing Arctic ice cap, and the greatest meltdown of the Greenland ice shield in recorded history, their news divisions went dumb and mute.
However, teams did not go on the spending spree that players had hoped for when the cap disappeared.
There are side trips to fissured ice caps, disappearing glaciers — the snows of yesteryear — and expanses of newly parched and broken terrain.
"For me, I wouldn't mind if the whole ice cap disappears," said Ole Christiansen, the chief executive of NunamMinerals, Greenland's largest homegrown mining company, as he picked his way along a proposed gold mining site up the fjord from Nuuk, Greenland's capital.
It was one thing to make plans for such a big step when there was talk of a £40m ceiling on expenditure; quite another to enter such an intensely competitive arena when the budget cap disappeared during the struggle for power between the existing 10 teams of the Formula One Teams Association (Fota) and the FIA.
Now that it is clear the Knicks should have played out the Ewing era and let his mammoth salary and that of others disappear from the cap, those fans not disguised as empty seats know they are being served Sanka, not espresso, in the form of veterans like Clarence Weatherspoon.
As we drive around, he lowers his voice and says: 'Don't look back now, but that lad carrying the blue carrier bag was taken to Paddington Green [police station in London] because they thought he had something to do with the bombings.' As I turn around I see a youth wearing a cap disappear into a house.
