Whether brewed or steeped, producing the world’s two most popular beverages comes at a huge cost to the planet.
Hosts Jack Board and Liling Tan bring years of expertise covering climate change and sustainability to this weekly podcast. A one-stop shop for news, views and interviews.The debate between coffee and tea is as old as time. For centuries, fans around the world have quarrelled over their health benefits, caffeine content and popularity.
But this week, Jack Board and Liling Tan serve up a different kind of argument – on the carbon footprint each beverage leaves behind.Jack Board: There's no doubt that tea production, especially in tropical countries, is implicated in lots of deforestation. It is causing pollution. It is leading to impacts on biodiversity. It's also highly vulnerable to climate change, so changing weather patterns means all of the processes for producing tea are under threat, from the plucking to the pruning and then how chemicals are being used in the process.: Yes, yes, your turn in a minute.
Overall, drinking tea is not a carbon free exercise at all. It's about 20g of carbon in leaf form, and then you put it in a tea bag, you multiply that impact by 10 times. You add some milk, boil a bit too much water, put in some sugar, or maybe you're out for an iced tea in a plastic cup with a thick plastic straw.: It’s not like you're drinking coffee from a pitcher plant.
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