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Climate change could take a bite out of the banana industry | The ideal places to grow them could get too hot for the fruit.
(yaleclimateconnections.org)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
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The Gros Michel is where artificial banana flavoring comes from. You can actually still get them, but they are around $90 per pound of bananas. There's a greenhouse in Florida that can still grow them. I ordered a bunch of them a few years ago, and can confirm they taste like artificial banana, though not as sweet as most things that are banana flavored.