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1. anonymiss (anonymiss@despora.de)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2017 04:55:36 UTC anonymiss

   #Chocolate #industry drives #rainforest #disaster in Ivory Coast

   source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/13/chocolate-industry-drives-rainforest-disaster-in-ivory-coast

   According to the Guardian’s research, "cocoa is a monster that will eventually eat itself, scientists say. Farmers will miss the trees they cut and burned down for the very reason that their shade would have protected their #cocoa #plants from increasingly parched, dry seasons, driven by cutting down trees."

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   “It’s white people who eat chocolate, not us,” one says.

   Is our appetite for chocolate destroying the rainforests?

   #forest #environment #economy #fail #news #problem #agriculture #climate