4w ago

Scientists claim it's already too late to save the luxury crops that make coffee, chocolate, and wine

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Wait until it's wheat and corn
You're not going to give a shit about the chocolate
- If Putin takes Ukraine then Putin will be in charge of approximately 1/3 of the carbohydrates on the planet.
- i think they fare better in temperate climates, its the tropical ones like cacoa, vanilla, oranges,,,etc that are in trouble.
  
  My point is that temperate climates are going to get fucked too, it'll just take slightly longer. But it will happen within our natural lifetimes.
  What do we eat then?
Sensationalised headline. The cited research is about stratospheric aerosol injection and the effects thereof on luxury crops.
See the original work: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adfbff
Study is only for solar cooling or seeding clouds.
- Yup. About stratospheric aerosol injection. Totally misrepresented headline.
  Original article: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adfbff
Grapes? We can't save grapes?
Ehh that’s dramatic. There are plenty of (not great tasting) fakes. We can easily synthesize caffeine, and alcohol can come from fermenting plenty of fruits and other things. There’s also teas of numerous varieties. So we’ll be just as caffeinated and drunk complaining about how bad the shitty fake Hershey’s chocolate tastes.
All that aside, there are a lot of crops which are essentially monocultures that are in danger from things like disease and climate change. Bananas, coffee, cacao, even oranges.
We will make potato wine.
- And potatoes chocolate
caffeine pills it is then
- Also has been.
Coffee and wine don't matter. Will climate denialist parents that pretend to care about their kids go as far as giving up coffee and wine to help afford chocolate for Halloween / Christmas time at least? Or is chocolate the first one to get cut out when it's harder to match supply with demand?

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