No more chocolate, coffee or wine? ‘Last supper’ shows stakes of climate crisis

As these foods become more rare, they get more and more expensive, exacerbating inequalities. Illustration: Andy Wang/The Guardian

The premise sounded like a rich person’s ethically suspect fever dream: a dinner structured around endangered foods, dubbed “the last supper”.

But it wasn’t a scene out of The Menu, the movie where detestable foodies seek a once-in-a-lifetime experience steeped in privilege and exploitation. Instead of dining on obscure food on the brink of extinction, the “last supper” featured recognizable dishes – salmon, oysters, coffee, wine – that could drastically change or disappear in the coming years as the climate warms and brings more volatile weather.