One of the things I always associate with memories of my Mom is the smell of coffee. Mom almost always had a cup of coffee at her elbow, morning, afternoon, and evening. Even so, I never learned to like coffee. Just don't like the smell or the taste of it. When I want caffeine, I generally get it from the same source as a certain former President. What's odd about this is that I spent 12 years between active and reserve components in the Army, and the Army, as any old soldier will tell you, runs on Diesel fuel and coffee. Somehow I managed, even in the face of 72-hour ARTEPS and 10-day field exercises.
I'm in the minority here. Plenty of Americans start their day with a cup of Joe. But now the World Economic Forum (WEF) has its sights set on your morning java, in the name of -- you guessed it -- climate change.
X users besieged the comment section of a video featuring Swiss banker Hubert Keller telling a WEF panel last week how much CO2 coffee production puts into the atmosphere, warning that "they’re coming for your coffee."
In the clip — which was shared to X on Monday and has since racked up over three million views and many comments — Keller noted just how many "tonnes" (metric unit equivalent to 2,204 lbs) of CO2 coffee makers put into the atmosphere globally when producing their product.
He said, "Basically, the coffee that we all drink emits between 15 and 20 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of coffee. So we should all know that this is — every time we drink coffee, we are basically putting CO2 into the atmosphere."
Well, sure. Every time you breathe, you're putting CO2 into the atmosphere. Every time you do anything, you produce some CO2. The carbon cycle is one of those things, like water and oxygen, that is an essential part of life on this planet. So, yes, coffee farmers, like everyone else, are producing one level of CO2 or another in the course of their daily business.
Here's the thing: Most coffee growers are poor people scratching out a living in the mountains of Central and South America; when some WEF apparatchik talks about the need to "re-organize" the coffee industry, these farmers are going to take it in the shorts.
Elsewhere, the WEF contributor told his fellow panelists about how there is an opportunity to re-organize the coffee industry, which he noted is a "$250 billion market globally" to make it more eco-friendly and to address the fact that "most of coffee growers live below the poverty line."
What does that mean? Commentator Tim Hinchliffe, on X/Twitter, went after the WEF crowd and explained that very directly:
They're going after coffee farmers. When he says production is "fragmented," he's saying it has yet to be captured by corporations & centralized. The coffee farmers in the globalist-termed 'global south' are to be stripped of their livelihoods in the name of climate justice https://t.co/gBTVj9FFJ2
— Tim Hinchliffe (@TimHinchliffe) January 23, 2024
Of course, this will cost someone a lot of money, to do this re-organizing. A lot of people will be involved, as those small farmers aren't going to just screw themselves over; someone is going to have to force them to give up their livelihood -- someone from, say, the United Nations.
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Giving money to the UN, or any of the various "climate" groups out there, is like shoveling flies across a barn. Consider the likely implications of this coffee "re-organization," for example; if they should happen, the coffee-growing process will be taken over by some big corporations, and if history is any indication those companies (let's say this softly) will be run by relatives of the WEF/UN officials pushing the re-organization agenda. Thousands of small farmers will lose their lands and face the choice of either laboring for the big companies or seeking greener pastures elsewhere; these people, of course, will be counted as "migrants displaced by climate change." Some rich folks will get richer, and some little guys will get hosed.
The WEF elites, of course, aren't affected by these ruinous ideas. When you have Klaus Schwab-level money, an extra dollar -- or an extra sawbuck -- for your Starbucks just doesn't matter, and one has to believe they don't really care about the ordinary folks, either. If you can't afford a can of Folgers, well, it's probably for your own good. That's just the excuse they used to push you to give up your suburban home, your SUV, your evening snort of good whiskey, the occasional good cigar, or so many of the other things that make life worthwhile.
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Going after coffee is crossing a pretty serious line. Most folks won't give up their morning java. Coffee, one has to admit, has broad appeal; even one famous feral child of note, when grown, became fond of the stuff.
