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Coffee and global warming

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It's official coffee is the solution to, and cause of, every problem... National Geographic -

It's hardly a coincidence that coffee and tea caught on in Europe just as the first factories were ushering in the industrial revolution. The widespread use of caffeinated drinks--replacing the ubiquitous beer--facilitated the great transformation of human economic endeavor from the farm to the factory. Boiling water to make coffee or tea helped decrease the incidence of disease among workers in crowded cities. And the caffeine in their systems kept them from falling asleep over the machinery. In a sense, caffeine is the drug that made the modern world possible. And the more modern our world gets, the more we seem to need it. Without that useful jolt of coffee--or Diet Coke or Red Bull--to get us out of bed and back to work, the 24-hour society of the developed world couldn't exist.

Slurped in black coffee or sipped in green tea, gulped down in a soda or knocked back in a headache pill, caffeine is the world's most popular psychoactive drug - [TreeHugger points to global warming...] Link to National Geographic article...

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Feb 21, 2007 02:38 PM
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