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‘Mezcal is a way of life’ for Mexican communities – but its popularity is costing the earth

Mezcal production in Mexico has gone from about 1 million litres in 2010 to more than 11 million in 2024.

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00:00Are you serious?
00:02Yes, there's the sun there.
00:04What's going on?
00:05I'm going to spend a lot of time here.
00:07I don't have a week here.
00:23Many people invested.
00:26They invested in agave with people who had the land.
00:31What they did was cut all the trees and sow agave.
00:41There's a loss of biodiversity,
00:43because the agave requires free spaces,
00:47and so they have to remove the previous cover.
00:50And so they apply the herbicides or chemicals,
00:55which make the soil lose fertility
00:57or we start to have erosion.
00:59So they can do it.
01:01They can do it.
01:02Yes.
01:04I think they are from the Amazlanta.
01:06They can do it, right?
01:18This is how it works.
01:20in part of the environment or our ecosystem,
01:28but it is also the only source of work that we have.
01:34We don't have any support from the government,
01:38so we can't depend, just tell us,
01:44because we have to survive.
01:50But we can't live in a new system that has a lot of comfort,
01:52that we can't live together.
01:56This is the first one for the living living space.
02:03So, people think we've got to do something for you,
02:03You
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