As we leave the Starbucks farm, Bogantes Vargas, the daughter of a coffee farmer, points out the old coffee plantations that have closed as a result of years of water shortages.
You can ask the residents of Cape Town, South Africa, who experienced a year-over-year drought drying up their water reserves, and then being asked not to flush their toilets.
" The army officers were all seething: " Our fathers, sons, and cousins have fought in battles year after year, and more than half our number are now dead.
After Lord Hui took power in Jin, the millet and barley did not ripen properly in successive harvests, and so in the fifth year of his rule there was a terrible famine.
" Xiong Tong came out with a pack of lies in return: " My humble country has suffered poor harvests for several years in succession, and my people are exhausted and half-starved.