Environment & Energy
Related: About this forumHey, Tabasco sauce lovers!
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 Louisianas 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
(17,604 posts)mountain grammy
(26,598 posts)before it's gone.
longship
(40,416 posts)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
(17,235 posts)Hope Avery Island survives.
Duppers
(28,117 posts)Well, the beer and coffee too.
Unlike his parents, my son loves theTabasco sauce - so that's also terrible.