Coffee is increasingly at risk from the climate crisis, and corporate-driven incremental change won’t save it. The theory of degrowth offers hope for a better world and a fairer coffee industry.
For paid subscribers: Coffee is increasingly used to burnish the United Arab Emirates’ international image. Now it is being supercharged by merging with the popularity of the Dubai chocolate trend.
A story in the Guardian highlighted the extent of debt bondage among India’s coffee workers.
Gossip column Page Six reported that Snoop Dogg has dropped his coffee brand INDOxyz just six months after confidently stating that, “Indo is going to change the industry, I can promise you that.”
And “beanless” coffee returned to the news. This time, it’s because molecular coffee company Atomo is launching its first “coffee” and telling everyone who will listen how sustainable it is compared to regular coffee farming. Of course, it’s more complicated than that.
I'm a coffee writer and creator of The Pourover. Based in Scotland, I have over a decade of experience in the specialty coffee industry. Ask me about coffeewashing. It's pronounced Fin (he/him)
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