{"id":4093,"date":"2011-10-21T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T04:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=4093"},"modified":"2011-10-17T21:57:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T01:57:10","slug":"year-2-month-10-day-21-brrrrrr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-10-day-21-brrrrrr\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 10, Day 21: Brrrrrr."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been seeing this come up in Google recently, but it was only on October 17 that I decided to write a letter about Starbucks’ concerns about the world’s coffee crop, which were described in the October 16 issue of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

There’s a global crisis of unimaginable import and the powers that be aren’t doing anything about it, despite Seattleites’ strident efforts to raise awareness.<\/p>\n

No, it’s not “Occupy Seattle.” We’re talking about a threat to the world’s coffee supply; and Starbucks executives, not underemployed young people, are ringing the alarm.<\/p>\n

Jim Hanna, the Seattle coffee empire’s sustainability director, told The Guardian that climate change is already spurring severe hurricanes and more resistant bugs that are reducing crop yields.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I could imagine a future without oil more easily than one without coffee. Sent October 17:<\/p>\n

For American coffee drinkers, the news that climate change may drastically impact future crops around the world should be a sobering revelation. Of course, it isn’t just the bitter brown berry that’ll get clobbered by the consequences of a runaway greenhouse effect, but virtually every aspect of planetary agriculture. <\/p>\n

But it is also worth noticing that Starbucks actually has a “Sustainability Director” \u2014 an official whose responsibilities presumably involve looking farther into the future than the next quarterly report. This is something which other corporations should emulate. <\/p>\n

How different would our planetary energy economy be if the big oil companies’ priorities were built around more than short-term profitability? How different would our planetary environment be if they respected (and acted upon) climatologists’ reports instead of lavishing funding on anti-science politicians?<\/p>\n

It’s time for the fossil fuel industries to wake up \u2014 and smell the coffee.<\/p>\n

Warren Senders<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been seeing this come up in Google recently, but it was only on October 17 that I decided to write a letter about Starbucks’ concerns about the world’s coffee crop, which were described in the October 16 issue of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: There’s a global crisis of unimaginable import and the powers that be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1012,680,241],"class_list":["post-4093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-coffee","tag-corporate-irresponsibility","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4094,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093\/revisions\/4094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}