Climate change is raising ocean levels and destroying coastal cities, causing massive extinction, including iconic species like the polar bear, and may even be the end of chocolate.
NOW do I have your attention?
Seriously, folks...if reducing your impact on the environment isn't one of your resolutions for 2018, you ought to rethink them.
http://www.ibtimes.com/chocolate-shortage-may-lead-disappearance-within-40-years-scientists-say-2635577
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When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
And it could be even worse than that. The most important crop on earth is in danger.
ReplyDeletebbc.com - Saving coffee from extinction
A tropical cyclone destroyed a significant portion of the vanilla crop in Madagascar back in March of 2017.
ReplyDeleteThis will happen with increasing frequency and to other crops (let's not forget the fires that have ravaged both Northern and Southern California).
Ah, but vanillin is easily synthesized. Chocolate is harder.
ReplyDeleteIt still hurt, especially bakers who use the real thing.
ReplyDeleteMaple syrup is the future, obviously.
ReplyDeleteMaple syrup is facing trouble as well.
ReplyDeleteCorn syrup with petroleum based Maple flavoring
ReplyDeleteAvocados. Now with glyphosphate!
ReplyDeletesnopes.com - FACT CHECK: Is Chocolate “On Track To Go Extinct” in 40 Years?
ReplyDeleteThat Snopes article could also be about petroleum.
ReplyDeleteJim Douglas So maybe not technically extinct, but "gone" from store shelves for 99.9% of the world's population? Same effect, really, to that 99.9%.
ReplyDeleteAnother boutique market opportunity
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