We'll always have vanilla? No, of course not. We could lose it.

Climate change and deforestation destroy our planet piece by piece. We can lose vanilla.

"Extracted from the bean pod of a delicate orchid, vanilla must be grown under exceptionally precise conditions along a band of the earth between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. This supreme finickiness makes it unusually vulnerable to the growing shocks of climate change and deforestation."
— Aimee Nezhukumatathil, "This Is How the World’s Favorite Scent Disappears," New York Times, Aug. 4, 2024, part of the What to Eat on a Burning Planet series

Vanilla by gate74 from Pixabay

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