17-03-2019 22:20 via vancouversun.com

Drought? Disease? Killer insects? Bitter cold? In Italy, it's olive the above

Maybe, like climate change, it’s creeping up on us and we don’t feel its day-to-day impact, but according to an unscientific survey of shoppers and suppliers, the rising cost of olive oil hasn’t been noticed or at least had an impact.
It’s like the boiling-frog fable, only instead of an amphibian not realizing it’s being cooked as the water temperature slowly rises, it’s tens-of-millions of olive trees dying from, among other things, parching heat.
The Italian
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