A World Too Hot for Chocolate

For years, scientists have warned that the climate crisis would take food off our plates long before it wiped cities off the map. And here we are: chocolate, Britain’s unofficial national antidepressant, is slipping through our fingers. Prices have soared, cocoa belts are collapsing, bars are being quietly reformulated into “chocolate flavour,” and the officials in charge of the planet’s largest chocolate-producing regions are openly admitting they cannot keep up with the damage.