The Washington Post reports on the banana crisis

Since the helium crisis may have been alleviated by the discovery of immense helium reserves in Tanzania (I wrote about the concern in past years), we now return to the banana crisis, which I have mentioned previously.

The Washington Post just had an article about it:


Bananapocalypse: The race to save the world’s most popular fruit


"No other variety of banana combines the sweetness and suitability for packing and export of the Cavendish. If the Humpty Doo experiment [read the article] — or simultaneous efforts with conventional breeding techniques — don’t bring positive results, scientists say we could be looking at a future where bananas all but disappear from store shelves."


That would truly be a different world.