• numberfour002@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    It’s a linear extrapolation that doesn’t take into account the not completely unreasonable chance that commercially viable banana varieties could go [functionally] extinct or that climate change will make it dramatically more expensive to grow them in sufficient quantities such that the price can stay on trend.

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      9 months ago

      I mean, one variation has already had that happen to it… the “Fake” bananna flavoring just didn’t get changed when the bananna strain got changed.

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        9 months ago

        Ah yes, the Gros Michel banana. It’s the banana my parents grew up with, but is now virtually extinct. Weird story. Even weirder that it could happen again.