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"It is not too far-fetched to begin questioning the very existence of specialty coffee."
That's a quote from a coffee trade group, the Specialty Coffee Association of America, that's one among many such organizations warning that climate change is pushing us towards peak coffee. Yes, it's another 'peak' -- first oil, then fish, then chocolate, now coffee -- Richard Heinberg's 'peak everything' thesis is looking more and more astute. In this case, it's because coffee, like cocoa, are picky, finicky plants -- they require just the right temperature and amount of rainfall to produce a decent yield. And climate change is screwing it all up: yields are way down, it's becoming impossible to plant in certain regions, and as a result, prices of coffee beans are soaring. As a result, higher end coffee may vanish altogether, and the cheap stuff you buy in Costco by the 5 pound tin may become a luxury item.
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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/03/peak-coffee-incoming-climate-change-killing-buzz.php
 
Crap! I'm already paying $30 per gallon ($3.75 per 16 ounces) of coffee when I buy it at the shop, we need to start some subsides, but then they'll probably start taxing it too... Damn!
 
Nature took hundreds of millions of years to prepare this delicately-balanced, possibly-unique, blue planet, getting it ready to support life. Now, in some hundreds of years, bipeds have multiplied and raped the planet's resources sufficiently to endanger the future of quality life, without even once in their warring existance having attempted to achieve quality living for every person on the planet. Basically a history (and present) of power, greed, and "slavery" of the masses.

Is there intelligent life on this planet?
Not enough, it seems.
Just being SELF-aware is insufficient, one needs to see beyond self and tomorrow.
 
I posted about this sometime back.

Yes, coffee is very very picky. An estate owner in Kenya once told me - one step down and it won't grow. Coffee plant also takes years to mature and start beaing fruit.

Enjoy while you can.

http://www.sweetmarias.com/index.php
 
mwalsh said:
DON'T MAKE ME START DRINKING TEA AGAIN! :x
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And what sir, is wrong with drinking tea?

I fear it is because you are NOT drinking proper tea but merely dreadful weak tea, the kind that is only sold in the colonies. :D

For a good proper brew you should use a good tea - http://www.yorkshiretea.co.uk/# seriously. It's also my favourite and worth every penny.
 
mwalsh said:
GrumpyCabbie said:
For a good proper brew you should use a good tea - http://www.yorkshiretea.co.uk/# seriously. It's also my favourite and worth every penny.
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I'll pass on the tea. Though I will eat your puddings, so long as they come with ample beef gravy. YUMM!
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Mmmm now you're talking. A giant Yorkshire Pudding full of roast beef and amply beef and onion gravy, washed down with a pint of Black Sheep bitter (beer). It doesn't get any better.
 
GrumpyCabbie said:
I fear it is because you are NOT drinking proper tea but merely dreadful weak tea, the kind that is only sold in the colonies. :D
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Oh, c'mmon. Not a tea Leaf grows in UK, they only grow in the colonies ;)

BTW, now that Tatas have taken over Tetley we are starting to see even some interesting bagged teas. Try Tetley Elaichi, for eg. Ofcourse nothing like the real Darjeelings (not the low lands near Darjeeling stuff).
 
I enjoyed every minute of my four years living in England. The only problem is that it completely trashed my ability to drink American tea and that American 'beer like substance'. :lol:

Thanks evnow. I'm reading...digging thru reports...listening to news about freak storms, floods, tornadoes...'enjoying' another record hot day and hoping fires from the million and half acres of Texas that have already burned don't hang a right and come down here.

Welcome to Eearth - ya'll ain't from around here are ya?

:cry:

For you, Gary...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Na9-jV_OJI[/youtube]
 
TRONZ said:
... i'm still stuck on the beef pudding thing
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Erm not sure if I'm interpreting this wrong but a Yorkshire Pudding is not a pudding in the traditional sense but erm, oh heck just read the following;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire_pudding

In Yorkshire, England where Yorkshire Puddings come from you will often find that instead of small Yorkshires (as shown in the picture on the wiki link) you will find that we like one big, massive Yorkshire Pudding that is the size of a plate, about 2 inches high and has the bottom covered with slices of roast beef and then filled with half and inch of onion gravy. Mmmmm.

You have not lived unless you have eaten one of these. Alternatively the 'pudding' can be filled with sausages and mashed potato (bangers n mash) and gravy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangers_and_mash

If you're handy in the kitchen you should give it a go.
 

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