The #1 Reason to Fight Global Warming

Forget drowning polar bears. Forget dying coral reefs and an increasingly acidified ocean. Forget a Glacier Nat’l Park that is rapidly becoming Empty Vales Nat’l Park.

If you have a shred of humanity in you. If you have any membership as a denizen of our planet. If you were ever once a child. If you have ever celebrated a religious holiday, partaken in Halloween or Valentines day. If you are a hungry snacker, a woman, an epicure, an ice cream lover, a cake eater, a snack machine patron, then you…

love…

Chocolate.

(or at least like it).

Climate change is affecting the health of our world’s cacao trees. It seems they are unusually fragile trees requiring near perfect heat and humidity, well-drained soil and a location within 18 degrees of the Equator. They need to be hot – but not too hot – and they grow in flat tropical lands where there is no ‘uphill’ to migrate to if things get too warm. Well-drained soil is an oxymoron in the tropics, and changing climate might bring too much water. Or too little. Cacao is susceptible to the tiniest droughts and conversely to heavy storms that can knock their fragile flowers apart. And, of course, global warming can enhance the resilience of pests and fungus that make cacao’s life miserable.

So if you’ve ever snickered at a joke, melted M&Ms in your mouth but not in your hand; If you’ve ever visited Willy Wonka or gone bobsledding with Toblerone; If you’ve ever dated Little Debbie, had back-alley mouth sex with a Ho Ho, or eaten a pint of Ben&Jerry’s Double Fudge Brownie while watching the Creature from the Black Lagoon; If you’ve ever savored the silky bitterness of a gourmet dark chocolate bar or peeped at Lady Godiva’s luscious thighs; If you’ve ever sipped hot chocolate on a sleigh ride or sipped cacao juice before ritually killing an Aztec sacrifice; If you’ve ever bought band candy, given your sweetie kisses, or baked sensimilla brownies; If you’ve ever cleaned the pool just to munch on a Babe Ruth…

Then you need to save chocolate. Save the Earth, save chocolate. Stop global warming.