Warning climate change could threaten Britain’s beloved cup of tea
The familiar comfort of a British cuppa is under threat, with campaigners warning that climate change could soon deliver a more bitter flavour to the nation’s beloved brew.
A new report from aid agency Christian Aid reveals that rising global temperatures and increasingly extreme weather patterns are set to fundamentally alter the taste of tea.
Key tea-producing regions, including Kenya, India, and Sri Lanka, are experiencing conditions that could lead to harsher, less consistent flavours.
Without wishing to suggest that Christian Aid has merely climbed on a bandwagon here, it does have a "climate adaptation and resilience lead".
Claire Nasike Akello, climate adaptation and resilience lead at Christian Aid, said: “For generations, consumers have taken for granted that a cup of tea will taste the same, day in, day out."
7 comments:
Then buy Cornish tea. Easy peasy.
dearieme - I've never tried that one, but there are lots of herbal alternatives to to tea as well, we drink a couple of those regularly.
Have to hand it to the climate liars. There's a major el Niño coming which will (transiently) change the weather in east Africa. The tea crop may well suffer (transiently).
decnine - if it does suffer they won't admit that of course. It will be our fault so we should cough up.
Cornish tea eh? Hmmmm. 🤔
Thier arguments get weaker and weaker. We should impoverish the world so that the taste of a cup of tea remains consistant?
Most people don't even know how to make a proper brew anyway
James - rather like Darjeeling apparently, so not my cup of tea.
Bucko - yes it's a weak argument is that one. I'm not fussy about tea as long as I can taste that it definitely is tea.
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