On a long drive during the weekend, or else, escape from home and work, who has not driven into a Highway Wild Bean Café to wake up your brain? You go through the long list, from which I can cite a few as it goes Espresso, Caffé Latte, Cappucino, Caffe moc-ha, Caffé Americano, Freshly brewed filter coffee, Iced coffee, Darjeeling tea, Earl Grey, Herbal Infusion, Tazo Chai…..here goes the list as you wish…..tremendous number of choices in front of you.

During the week, in between our early morning sprint to get to work, we have this precious drink to keep us awake with its caffeine boost in the form of a cuppa tea or coffee. After the sprint, by 11am again you get up from your desk to have another one. And another one by 3pm after your lunch……could you really think of living without your cuppa?

But has anyone thought about the pain behind capturing those flavours palatable to our taste buds and refreshing to our brain? Farmers across Asia, Africa and Latin America depend on the weather patterns for their harvest reaching us in the form of tea bags and freshly ground coffee. But whilst you are jacking up the atmosphere with CO2 emissions from your 4X4 or your luxurious life-style, you never would have thought that it has an effect on these farmers.

The bad news is that, extreme weather conditions is the talk of hour, Latin America is suffering from torrential rains and flooding, Africa from drought and Asia from changing weather patterns providing weather conditions unsuitable for coffee or tea cultivation.

So would you sacrifice your cuppa for the rest of the luxuries in life? Could you survive without your cuppa? What will the farmers do for a living? Watch your carbon footprint…..otherwise we would end up drinking tap water, to wake up our whacked up brains!!

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