A handful of egg heads in the Great White North are concerned about the detrimental effects of coffee on the planet. Drinking it, brewing it, and those individual, disposable coffee capsules (K-Cups). Yikes!
Global coffee consumption has been increasing steadily for almost 30 years. With a daily average consumption of 2.7 cups of coffee per person, coffee is now Canada’s most popular drink. It is estimated that around two billion cups of coffee are consumed daily worldwide.
This demand has led to considerable diversification in the ways of preparing coffee as well, including the creation of coffee capsules. The popularity of these capsules has divided the public opinion because this method of preparation, which uses single-use individual packaging, is harmful to the environment. …
The pollution resulting from the preparation of coffee at home is just the tip of the iceberg.
The rest of the iceberg includes the actual agriculture, harvesting, shipping, processing, and packing, which emits (we assume unnecessary or excessive) greenhouse gases. But doesn’t being a pseudo-intellectual (tea-drinkin’?) climate stooge create greenhouse gasses?
This is just a guess, but if you worship the pantheon of progressive climate gods, we must assume you believe the net-zero mythology. The electric future. A vision built on the backs of human trafficking, low-wage, or slave labor. Toxic rare-earth metals exhumed in open-pit mines, trucked, shipped, and transported to places like China, another human-rights violator. A land with few, if any, environmental regulations that facilitate the lie of the green dream with power derived from dirty coal to manufacture metal parts and process these toxic bits into batteries that must be transported around the globe on ships, then put on trucks. Delivered to another manufacturing facility, all of which emit massive amounts of whatever we’re emitting this week that you’ve labeled bad.
Did someone else call dibs on investigating all that consumption and greenhouse gas emissions?
And do you have any thoughts on an IPCC report claiming climate change was endangering the “bean belt” and could negatively affect production? Or that during this so-called time of detrimental climate, coffee bean production has nearly doubled.
Would you be offended if we made fun of you and the entire exercise, which, as far as we can tell, is little more than wasted emissions to generate the contradictory nonsense du jour in pursuit of more tax dollars for eggheads tasked with loading an endless stream of “intellectual” quarters into the laundromat?
HT | WUWT
