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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WOW! When was the last time you saw a wild corn plant?? Does that mean corn is going extinct? Sheesh they really think we are morons!!
The article is deceptive (of course).
These are wild varieties of the coffee plant, not domesticated, not agricultural products.
One could make similar claims of being threatened about rare wild varieties of any domesticated species. Maize for instance.
top of my head so far i’ve read global warming is going to end chocolate, vanilla, bacon, beer and now coffee..
give me a minute and there will be thirty more including loose women..
I can do you one better...
Read the article and knew it was a complete fabrication. Nowhere in the article does it mention the amount of coffee production. So, I looked it up.
Worldwide coffee production has increased every year for as far back as I could find.
This is a completely political article.
It would be like writing an article that said, "Children in Europe are going to starve" Then the body of the article talks about how since Europe supports socialist policies, there will be more poverty and suffering and could lead to more children starving.
"I diiiid!"
They’re getting desperate. They are trying to scare us. Won’t work.
B-b-b-but...global warming!
LOL! Great video. :-)
They grow coffee on mountain slopes. No trees required.
Hmmm??? Fake/Fear news to raise prices? Maybe true, but my BeeEss meter is going off loudly. Nothing that makes folks lotsa money ever goes extinct. To be optimisitc, we’re one asteroid collision from everything being “at risk of extinction”. Justathought.
“Miss, are you telling us absolutely everything?”
“Not exactly. We’re also out of coffee”
The Starbucks crowd must be frantically calling their therapists.
“how many polar bears drink coffee?”
Silly rabbit, everyone knows they drink Coke.
In general you are right.
But (a) in the immediate sense coffee lovers have nothing to worry about and (b) coffee growers and wholesale buyers are aware of the problem also and will over time mitigate its effects, in their own self interest. Adapting to change is something humans have never been as capable of as we are today.
...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.
100 percent of living species are at risk of extinction. It's part of being alive. This is another scaremongering BS study, and the jackasses responsible should be imprisoned, or iced and thrown in a dumpster.
Chickens have been a husbanded food source since prehistoric times, and throughout the world. There are NO wild chickens.
Well, there goes 60 pounds of coffee...
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