#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."
...
“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