Chocolate and Climate
Did you know that cacao trees grow in the shade of diverse neighbouring trees? Together with their tree neighbours, cacao trees have a fantastically virtuous effect on climate, insetting many times their own size in CO2.
It is all the more outrageous that the cheap chocolate industry is forcing their cocoa trees to grow under full sun in industrial mono-forests. What makes chocolate cheap in the supermarket comes at a huge cost to trees, forests and the climate. Rare, valuable old rainforests are being cut down to make space for cheap, industrial chocolate forests.