https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-30/snow-blankets-parts-of-southern-brazil/100339282 Coffee prices set to rise. What's going on, what are we going to do about it? Can we rely on the politicians to do the best for our world rather than look to make a profit...
The coffee industry is a ****ing abomination as it is. I had a coffee company as a client and it made me want to ****ing kills myself. The conditions on farms are vile. The supply chain is kind of weird and there is something called the C-market. Basically New York and London stockbrokers etc trading the abstract notion of beans like futures. When the price dips, as it always does. Farmers are locked into contracts where they are losing money to supply coffee. So... Slavery. Poverty. Starvation. No human rights for farm workers. But guess who still makes money? The people selling coffee to customers. Big businesses like Costa, Starbucks, Sainsburies etc
God knows what those companies will start charging. Won’t affect me as I won’t entertain them - can’t say I’ve ever come out and said “ delicious- well worth the outrageous cost”. Give me a cup of “ English coffee” at Joe’s backstreet cafe any day
Tea☕ man myself, don't drink coffee so won't get in a sweat over this, more pissed off at the current ridiculous rise in petrol prices.
Its all a load of bollocks in the days of the Roman occupation of Britain the weather was so hot they had rice paddy fields in Chester le Street. At one time the ice sheet was a mile high and stretched down to London. Man could walk from Netherlands to England as the Dogger bank was inhabited when the ice melted the English channel was formed .The white cliffs of Dover are white because they are made up of tiny sea creatures an all along the coast line was under water . History tells us and proves the world changes all the time, the next major event will be when the magnetic north swaps to south it has already moved 10 degrees, it will bring about massive changes, All the **** governments say is just to steal more taxes,Solar panels cannot be recycled and have to be land filled the same applies for electric car batteries.Wind turbines only last 20 years max before the bearings wear out, and kill thousands of birds every year especially built out at sea where you cant see the destruction caused. Solar and wind power alone cannot produce enough electricity to melt metal, it takes a massive carbon foorprint to make a carbon car, which is one of the main reasons they push the dopey idea
"Can we rely on the politicians to do the best for our world rather than look to make a profit..." Have you ever seen a poor politician? No Neither have I.
Reducing emissions simply isn't going to happen. We need a technological solution. Unfortunately it'll need a major Western city to be underwater before there's a commitment to that.
Thanks marra, you've Nailed one of my conspiracy fears.... Electric Cars, are the batteries recyclable?
I'm not sure that's right, the Romans introduced lots of new foods to Britain but I've never heard of rice being one of them. The Italians didn't start growing rice as far north as the Po Valley (where risotto rice comes from) until the 15th century. You might be thinking of the Roman Warm Period, during which Europe was slightly warmer, but this, like the Little Ice Age of the medieval and post-medieval periods, was just a localised deviation in temperatures. It wasn't a global increase in temperature, so didn't cause the problems that current global warming does or will.
You're right -- the Romans didn't give us rice, they gave us nothing.. Well roads ,yes. And sanitation............ ...........
In his book The End of Roman Britain, Michael Jones has a chapter on the changing climate of fifth-century Britain. Tacitus writes in Agricola that the soil in Britain is fertile and that crops grow quickly there, but also that they ripen slowly because of the heavy rainfall and dampness of the soil. During the Roman era, the climate in Britain generally was favorable for agriculture, although much of the land, especially in the highlands, was only marginally so. From the second through the fourth centuries, the population of Roman Britain has been estimated to be approximately 3.5 million people. Jones contends that feeding this number would have put considerable strain on the ecology. Fifty or sixty thousand cultivated acres, alone, would have been required to feed the approximately 50,000 soldiers stationed in Britain in the first century AD. There were other environmental demands, as well, including fodder for military animals and quantities of iron, wood, and leather for construction, roads, and tents. The native Britons would have been hard pressed to pay the cost of sustaining such a presence. A growing population, urbanization, and the demands of the Roman army and government would all have intensified agriculture and grazing in previously undeveloped areas. In time, he argues, this over-utilization of the land would prove to be disastrous. Rice was known to European people as early as in the Roman period, when rice was also used as a medicinal herb.
E please log in to view this image ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY Millions of electric cars are coming. What happens to all the dead batteries? By Ian MorseMay. 20, 2021 , 12:44 PM The battery pack of a Tesla Model S is a feat of intricate engineering. Thousands of cylindrical cells with components sourced from around the world transform lithium and electrons into enough energy to propel the car hundreds of kilometers, again and again, without tailpipe emissions. But when the battery comes to the end of its life, its green benefits fade. If it ends up in a landfill, its cells can release problematic toxins, including heavy metals. And recycling the battery can be a hazardous business, warns materials scientist Dana Thompson of the University of Leicester. Cut too deep into a Tesla cell, or in the wrong place, and it can short-circuit, combust, and release toxic fumes. That’s just one of the many problems confronting researchers, including Thompson, who are trying to tackle an emerging problem: how to recycle the millions of electric vehicle (EV) batteries that manufacturers expect to produce over the next few decades. Current EV batteries “are really not designed to be recycled,” says Thompson, a research fellow at the Faraday Institution, a research center focused on battery issues
