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You may be soon, I will continue to buy the real thing until they outlaw that too in the name of saving the planet (er, I mean, implementing 21st century sumptu
by ls612 2y ago
You may be soon, I will continue to buy the real thing until they outlaw that too in the name of saving the planet (er, I mean, implementing 21st century sumptuary laws).
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoWhy would it be outlawed?
- ls612 2y agoI don’t think it would be anytime soon but I could definitely see someone making an argument around climate.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y agoCarbon tax would solve this. No need for bans or subsidies
- deprecative 2y agoYou'd think the coffee signalers would care about climate change as climate change is what is going to extinct the coffee they are defending against efforts to protect the climate (that would save their coffee) that simply do not exist.
- eschaton 2y agoThe original poster is just expressing a knee-jerk assumption that it’ll be assumed to be ecologically bad and outlawed for that, while simultaneously expressing that they don’t believe that reasoning when applied to other things that are already prohibited on those grounds. In other words, they’re not expressing an honest opinion with the statement, they’re signaling their belief in a worldview that assumes environmental regulation has ulterior motives.
- ls612 2y agoIt can be both my belief about ulterior motives and an honest opinion on my preferences for naturally grown coffee. :)
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoIt won't be naturally grown if its habitat's climate is no longer viable.
- RoyalHenOil 2y agoCoffee is often regarded as one of the more environmentally friendly forms of agriculture, since the plants benefit from growing in woodland conditions and are therefore often grown in mixed-species plantings (often marketed as shade-grown coffee), and they don't typically require much intensive or invasive management (such as repeatedly tilling the soil). I was lucky enough to see a number of these coffee farms firsthand when I did study abroad in Costa Rica as an undergrad ecology student. I was very impressed with them and the amount of biodiversity they hosted. They were certainly much, much better than nearly all of the agricultural alternatives I saw (especially banana farms, which exhibited by far the worst agricultural practices I have ever witnessed — and most of my career experience is in agricultural research, so I've seen a fair few).