The Biggest Casualty of Global Warming? Beer.
By Tom Chandler on Apr 9, 2008 in Underground Entertainment
Would you still be driving your 2 mpg Hummer and crushing the environment under the weight of your enormous carbon footprint if you knew you were personally causing the extinction of beer?
We didn’t think so. From Grist:
Malting barley will likely be harder to grow in a warming world, especially in Australia, says climate scientist Jim Salinger. He warned at an Institute of Brewing and Distilling convention Tuesday that within the next 30 years, "either there will be pubs without beer or the cost of beer will go up."
This is either a Sobering Climate Change Fact or a brilliant marketing maneuver designed to bring rednecks, bubbas and college fraternities into the anti-climate change cause.
If this isn’t an apocalyptic vision of a post-warming world, then nothing is.
See you in the pub, Tom Chandler.
razmaspaz | Apr 10, 2008 | Reply
“especially in Australia”
So are you telling me that a post global warming world there will be no Fosters? If thats true I might start buying gasoline just to light it on fire.
Tom Chandler | Apr 10, 2008 | Reply
No Fosters, but no Downtown Brown either. That’s simply too high a price to pay.
Ed | Apr 10, 2008 | Reply
Hopps shortage and now this? We’re doomed.
Last I checked, you don’t need either for tequila…margaritas anyone?
Smellslikefish | Apr 10, 2008 | Reply
I’ve witnessed people buying Fosters INTENTIONALLY.
Tom Chandler | Apr 10, 2008 | Reply
See, this is how we wake the general populace to the evils of climate change.
All we need now is a report detailing the warming-caused demise of coffee trees and Internet porn, and we’re there.
Eduardo Sanchez | Apr 11, 2008 | Reply
Now I´m worry about global warming…