What will we do without chocolate?
Cimate change threatens the key growing regions for chocolate’s raw material. Without a more sustainable approach to cocoa cultivation, the future looks grim. In fact, cocoa may well face “an “existential threat” largely because of increasingly dry conditions in cacao-producing regions.” [See source.] This would be terrible, of course, for the millions of farmers in the tropical band who rely on cocoa cultivation, but what would it mean for chocolate’s millions of avid consumers?
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