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The climate crisis has been previously identified as a threat to coffee and beer, and its impact could now be stretching to another of life’s joys: dessert.

The global cost of sugar has surged to its highest level since 2011 following concerns of underproduction rates from India, which has experienced an extreme dry spell that has threatened crops, and Thailand, which is facing a severe drought. The two countries are the largest exporters of sugar, after Brazil.

Rising global temperatures – 2023 is expected to be widely confirmed as the hottest year ever recorded – are fueling droughts and other extreme weather that affect food yields, including that of sugar. The price hike has already started to filter down to chocolate, sweets and other desserts.

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[–] _sideffect 73 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is all bs; I don't believe any reason they give for any increase in price any more

[–] Fades 8 points 10 months ago

They’ve lied and misconstrued the truth for so long, why believe them now

[–] brlemworld 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Isn't a lot of sugar harvested by immigrants who don't make even minimum wage? (In Florida)

[–] scottywh 3 points 10 months ago

A lot? Sure

Most refined sugar in the US actually comes from beets produced in Minnesota and Idaho though and not sugar cane.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_industry_of_the_United_States

[–] aelwero 59 points 10 months ago

Hol' up...

Prices for sugar were this high in 2011, so prices went up on sweets back then as well? Did they go back down and now they're going back up?

I bet they didn't...

[–] bl4ckblooc 49 points 10 months ago

Oh look, another articles explaining why prices are going up faster than inflation. Except it didn’t actually explain anything and just tries to make it seem like it isn’t “greed”.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm okay with having less sugar in our foods, if this is what it takes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Seriously, it should be classified as a drug. Kills so many

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

My grandma tried it once and thought she could fly. Threw herself straight off the Queensboro Bridge.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (3 children)

And all the other foods are going to follow.

Ah, well. Humans had a good run. Looks like we found our great filter.

[–] Nudding 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wish we didn't have to take out so many other species with us.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Good news is that the Earth will stabilise once we're not around to fuck it up.

[–] Nudding 4 points 10 months ago
[–] FlyingSquid 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Plenty of crops will grow just fine well through the future history of climate change. They may not be the ones people want to eat, but they will if they have to. This isn't going to cause humans to go extinct, but it will not be a pleasant life for our descendants who will be forced to only eat very hardy crops which probably don't taste very good.

[–] DoomBot5 2 points 10 months ago

We've been needing to switch to vertical agriculture to save on land usage anyways. This will only acceleration certain industries to do so.

[–] Sterile_Technique 2 points 10 months ago

Humans had a good run.

Humans had a run.

[–] MisterNeon 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if corn syrup prices will go up as well.

[–] scottywh 3 points 10 months ago

Probably not by any significant amount in the US thanks to subsidies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I see this as a good thing. Now I can loose weight.