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part 2 of the above posted naked capitalism “series”:
Embracing Climate Change to Hurt China
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/the-u-s-burn-it-all-down-strategy.htmlone link pulled from that text:
Liquefied natural gas carbon footprint is worse than coal
By Blaine Friedlander, Cornell Chronicle October 3, 2024Never gave a thought to chocolate before, until I read this article just now (from October last year):
The Bitter Truth Behind Chocolate’s Rising Prices
https://countertalk.co.uk/the-bitter-truth-behind-chocolates-rising-prices/Being a chocolate “person” I was reading the FT a year ago predicting higher prices. (Same for coffee this year.)
Of course if one gets real chocolate from real people it has nothing to do with any consumer product or so-called high-end brands from Turin or French “labels”.
Unless you know the people whose plants provide for the chocolate you are in the dark as info on exploitation goes.
The price hike now is totally a profitmaking scheme by commodity trade markets.In Germany the usual consumer products have doubled in price. So-called fair products less but still major increases.
We are soon back in the era when silk, chocolate or vanilla were luxury items.
