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Your morning cup of coffee contributes to climate change, says WEF ‘expert’

January 24, 2024 | | Print Article

The climate zealots are now coming after your morning java.

At least that is what many feared as global elites rubbed elbows and enjoyed fine dining at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland while seeming to tell regular folk to cut their coffee intake to save the planet.

Swiss banker Hubert Keller, a so-called “agenda contributor” said at the event last week that the climate is being negatively impacted by human consumption of coffee.

“The coffee that we all drink emits between 15 and 20 tons of CO2 per ton of coffee,” he said. “Every time we drink coffee, we are basically putting CO2 into the atmosphere.”

“And one of the reasons is because most of the coffee plantation or most of the coffee is produced through monoculture and monoculture is also affected by climate change… The quality of these natural assets is deteriorating quite rapidly,” he went on to say.

His comments reportedly came after other fear-mongering by Davos panelists like one speaker who called for “ecocide” laws to protect nature.

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These views, of course, are right in line with the WEF which has called for “Switching en masse to a plant-based diet” as another way to combat the effects of “unsustainable” farming practices.

In a 2016 blog post, the WEF declared, “Your morning coffee is destroying the planet.” The report raised the alarm over coffee consumption, especially in the area of coffee cups and single-serve coffee pods.

Keller, a senior managing partner at an independent Swiss banking group, was not speaking for the WEF in the panel and, in fact, the firm he is part of has touted regenerative food production, with coffee as an example.

“We are focussing our attention on regenerative food production. Why? Because 85% of the pressure on Nature stems from our food systems, so it is the development of regenerative food production that will unlock value in Nature’s assets,” he said. “It will increase the life and resilience of those assets. It will increase the carbon sequestration. And it will create nature-positive commodities at a time when the world is putting a price on the environmental cost of production. Economic systems powered by Nature’s regenerative approach can outcompete today’s economic systems.”

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But the left’s climate obsession and the gathering of globalists in Davos only sparked more criticism on social media where the threat to coffee drinkers was met with understandable passion.


Many X users called out the hypocrisy:

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