I have always lived in the Northern Hemisphere, far from the banana-growing tropics. More often than not, bananas at grocery stores in my hemisphere are all the same hue. Bright green seems to be the norm. When I bring them home, the interminable waiting begins. Why am I complaining to you about a human supply chain issue? Two reasons...
First of all, I wonder if you're planning to continue the perishable food concept for Earth 2.0. Perishable food is mighty tasty, but let's be honest, much of it goes uneaten because the right number of people in the right geographic region cannot always access perishable food before it turns funky. Human desire and nature's expiration date are not in sync, apparently.
The second reason, and in a sense the larger issue, is that technology sometimes backfires. We didn't have the banana color spectrum problem hundreds of years ago, before airplanes, cargo ships and trucks hauled them from hemisphere to hemisphere. People are giddy about inventing stuff and finding useful purposes for it, but inventions also can be frustrating. Especially if you have a hankering for a ripe banana. Maybe you could find a way for human ingenuity to produce only happy outcomes for all. Food for thought, anyway.
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