Five Foods That Are Killing the Planet

[MineralMan]

7. Overstatement is self-defeating, since anyone

can recognize it.

Human beings manipulate their environment. We've been doing that throughout our time on this planet. There are so many more destructive ways in which we do that than how we grow coffee, that it makes this article seem whiny and overstated.

Burning stuff. That's far more dangerous to the Planet than all the stuff mentioned in this article combined. And here in the United States, we destroyed our prairie lands 100%, long before GMO corn and wheat were created. We also cut down a vast part of our forested land, not to grow food, but to build buildings for people to live in and to print books, newspapers, and other such things. Europe wiped out its forests long before we destroyed ours. That's also more destructive than those food examples. But burning stuff...that's the one that really puts the planet at risk, at least for us humans. Eventually, we'll disappear, though, and the planet will find some new balance. It's the way of things.

The article is overstated, and remarkably so.