• mmddmm@lemm.ee
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    9 hours ago

    The problem with cocoa isn’t really global warming. It has been consistently dying because of a plague, that is well adapted to the same weather as cocoa.

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      5 hours ago

      Perhaps the solution would be a genetically engineered yeast that secretes theobromine and can be grown in vats anywhere. In a decade or two, that may be the only economically viable source of chocolate, and a few decades later, there may be nobody left who remembers the difference.