A Berkeley Activist's Diary, week ending July 17. Category: Public Comment from The Berkeley Daily Planet
Monday July 19, 2021 - 06:36:00 PM This feels like a week to pour a glass of wine, pick up a mindless book and eat chocolate. That is as long as there is water left to grow the grapes and the crop doesn’t cook in a heat dome and the tiny chocolate midge insects survive to pollinate the cocoa plant. The drought map https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/ looks worse each week and unless we can learn to appreciate the critical importance of insects and their host plants a lot more is at risk than just chocolate. Summer has barely started. The West is burning and so is Siberia. The flood...
Source: berkeleydailyplanet.com