Posted on 01/17/2019 5:32:47 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts
Coffee lovers, here’s one more reason to savor that morning cup o’ joe. Research shows 60 percent of coffee species found in the wild could soon go extinct.
In a new study published in the journal Science Advances on Wednesday, researchers at Kew Royal Botanic Gardens say factors putting the future of coffee at risk include climate change, deforestation, droughts, and plant diseases.
According to the study, a collaboration between scientists from the UK and Ethiopia, out of 124 types of wild coffee, 75 are at risk of extinction. About 35 of the 124 species grow in areas with no conservation protections.
“The important thing to remember is that coffee requires a forest habitat for its survival,” Aaron P. Davis, head of coffee research at Kew, who co-led the work, told CNN. “With so much deforestation going on around the world, wild coffee species are being impacted at an alarming rate.”
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More FUD. Could it be a well planned campaign to put pressure on coffee prices to rise? Again?
Personally, I don't care. Coffee is a luxury item. I can live without it. And besides, in 10-20 years when the study says this extinction will reach its apex, I'll be dead.
Indeed. I mean, they've tried to have coffee plantations and grow this stuff as a real agricultural enterprise, but you can't do it. Nope. You have to wander through the forest looking for stray coffee plants. It's the only way to get the beans. [/s]
Hope Folgers is the first to go. Lol.
Or... it could not.
I guess cultivating it on purpose didn’t cross their minds?
Nobody drinks that coffee anymore it’s too popular.
+1 Yogi
Read the lede and knew that “climate change” would appear.
Bingo.
It’s the first of N “you are something you like will due due to climate change” stories that’ll appear today, where N is a large number.
Journalists.
You know, the folks who failed fifth grade science for poets.
Plus, they are talking about wild coffee plants, not cultivated coffee. To link wild coffee to my morning cup is disingenuous.
Coffee originally came from Africa. It’s now grown in tropical areas all over the world. The kind people drink has no more chance of going extinct than people are. Just another ramped up scare tactic for the CO2 scam.
Drink tea.
Speaking of math, as suckers for CO2 scam goes to zero broadcast FUD goes to infinity.
how many polar bears drink coffee?
“out of 124 types of wild coffee, 75 are at risk of extinction”
And how much of the coffee drinking population is drinking coffee made from these “wild” species of coffee beans? Very little. So just what is it that coffee lovers have to worry about? Nothing.
All species, plant or animal, are at risk from something. It’s the way nature works.
The only real way to protect a species is to put it in an environment where it isn’t threatened.
Then it will evolve into something that has no defensive properties and is dependent on its artificial environment for survival.
Anyone frightened by this line of thought should go their safe space now.
;)
Also, we don't want wild plant species going extinct before we've had a chance to check them for medicinal properties.
Places where wild coffee grows is being used to grow proceeded coffee for starbucks and all the other coffee producers who have a name and $$ to spend.
I think Starbucks is causing the problem....yeah, let’s get the climate change wack jobs to blame Starbucks. It is always fun to see libs attack libs.
I think my Taster’s Choice is safe.
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