The true cost of coffee.
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In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look at the true cost of coffee. Specifically, I look at how shade-grown coffee and sun-grown coffee are cultivated in order to understand the environmental and social consequences of consuming coffee. Worldwide, coffee is the second most popular beverage next to the water, and the large majority of it is produced in the Global South and imported into the Global North. As a result, the environmental destruction caused by sun-grown coffees pollutes and deforests producing countries in order to satiate the thirst for caffeine in Europe and North America.
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Resources:
1. The History of Coffee (PBS)
2. Coffee Market Report November 2019 (International Coffee Organization)
3. Bitter BrewThe Stirring Reality of Coffee (Food Empowerment Project)
4. Coffee and the Shock Doctrine in Puerto Rico (Food First)
5. Why Shade Coffee Does Not Guarantee Biodiversity Conservation. (TejadaCruz et al.)
6. Coffee Export Statistics Where's Your Coffee From? (Coffee Statistics)
7. MappedThe countries that drink the most coffee (The Telegraph)
8. Top Coffee Producing Countries (World Atlas)
9. Coffee and Commodity Fetishism (Brock et al.)
10. Coffee as Ecological, Social, and Physical Unequal ExchangeA CrossNational Investigation of the Java Trade (Kelly Austin)
11. Tree Intercropping (Project Drawdown)
12. Ecological Benefits of Shadegrown Coffee (Smithsonian)
13. Matchmaking for coffee? Intercropping coffee plants, macadamia trees (Phys.org)
14. Effects of Coffee Management on Deforestation Rates and Forest Integrity (Hylander et al.)
15. The Global Coffee CrisisA Threat to Sustainable Development (International Coffee Organization)
16. Nestlé admits slave labour risk on Brazil coffee plantations (The Guardian)
17. Our coffee addiction is destroying the environment (Salon)
18. Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks (EPA)
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