Your morning coffee ravages forests. And so does just about everything else you consume.
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Coffee beans from a coffee farm in Dak Lak province, Vietnam (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)
Not so long ago, the Central Highlands of Vietnam were blanketed by forests so dense they blotted out the sun. The American soldiers who slogged through the area during the Vietnam War complained about leeches, mosquitoes, and snakes, but those triple-canopy jungles also teemed with tigers, elephants, and monkeys. The unrelenting darkness and tropical monsoons that made the highland woodlands so inhospitable to humans made them excellent habitat for wildlife.
But now they’re blanketed by coffee farms.
