The Chocolate Meltdown Is Underway

How record-breaking prices expose the unsustainable truth of an exploitation system enhanced by climate change.

Ricky Lanusse
The Environment
Published in
8 min readMar 18, 2024

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The chocolate meltdown. Created by author

When you go to that vending machine, chasing a Snicker bar to calm that sugar thirst, do you ever think about where the chocolate coating comes from? Or even know the shape of the cocoa fruit?

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