Hey, Tabasco sauce lovers!

[Ohiogal]

Avery Island, home of the famous hot sauce, could soon become marooned in the face of climate change.

"The threat posed to Tabasco is replicated along much of Louisiana’s coast, where a football field of land is lost every 100 minutes. Around 2,000 sq miles of land, roughly the size of Delaware, has vanished from the state since the 1930s due to a cocktail of maladies and self-inflicted wounds, stemming from the overdevelopment of the Mississippi river and an unquestioning embrace of extractive drilling, topped off by the wrenching global consequences of climate change."

"Climate change has cast a shadow over several everyday staples, menacing the production of chocolate, the harvesting of hops for beer, the growing of coffee beans."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/27/climate-change-louisiana-tabasco-avery-island

OH NO NOT COFFEE, BEER, AND CHOCOLATE!!!

[samnsara]

1. i took my folks there ages ago to tour it...fascinating!

[mountain grammy]

5. Will try to make it this year

before it's gone.

[longship]

2. They sheltered people during Katrina.

Apparently their factory/warehouse is very secure.

I would have loved to be there at that time. What a great place it must have been to shelter from a major hurricane.

[democratisphere]

3. My favorite hot sauces.

Hope Avery Island survives.

[Duppers]

4. Oh heck, not the Chocolate!

Well, the beer and coffee too.
Unlike his parents, my son loves theTabasco sauce - so that's also terrible.