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The World’s Most Popular Coffee Species Are Going Extinct, Study Says
Geek.com ^ | 1/16/2019 | Stephanie Valera

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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TOPICS: Agriculture; Food; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: coffee; completebs; gettherope; globalwarminghoax; globullwarming; scaremongering
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

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!!


21 posted on 01/17/2019 6:10:49 AM PST by BobinIL
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

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.


22 posted on 01/17/2019 6:11:11 AM PST by buwaya
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

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..


23 posted on 01/17/2019 6:14:10 AM PST by mowowie
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To: Da Coyote
Read the lede and knew that “climate change” would appear.

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.

24 posted on 01/17/2019 6:16:20 AM PST by nitzy
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To: Fai Mao
Love George Wallace. A seriously funny dude.

"I diiiid!"

25 posted on 01/17/2019 6:31:16 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Atrophy of science is visible when the spokesman goes from Einstein to Sagan to Neli Degrasse Tyson.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

They’re getting desperate. They are trying to scare us. Won’t work.


26 posted on 01/17/2019 6:31:40 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: Wuli
So just what is it that coffee lovers have to worry about? Nothing.

B-b-b-but...global warming!

27 posted on 01/17/2019 6:44:30 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Atrophy of science is visible when the spokesman goes from Einstein to Sagan to Neli Degrasse Tyson.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Research shows 60 percent of coffee species found in the wild...
28 posted on 01/17/2019 6:48:29 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Fai Mao

LOL! Great video. :-)


29 posted on 01/17/2019 7:00:58 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

They grow coffee on mountain slopes. No trees required.


30 posted on 01/17/2019 7:09:32 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: DungeonMaster

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.


31 posted on 01/17/2019 7:09:34 AM PST by FiddlePig (The greatest threat to our sacred liberty is to not value it!)
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To: Phillyred

“Miss, are you telling us absolutely everything?”

“Not exactly. We’re also out of coffee”


32 posted on 01/17/2019 7:15:51 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: mowowie
"top of my head so far i’ve read global warming is going to end chocolate, vanilla, bacon, beer and now coffee.."

Yet spiders and cockroaches and mosquitos will thrive. It's like Y2K: we were told airliners would drop from the sky, but nuclear missiles would launch themselves.
33 posted on 01/17/2019 7:29:45 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

The Starbucks crowd must be frantically calling their therapists.


34 posted on 01/17/2019 7:31:46 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: dontreadthis

“how many polar bears drink coffee?”

Silly rabbit, everyone knows they drink Coke.


35 posted on 01/17/2019 7:31:47 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: x

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.


36 posted on 01/17/2019 11:44:26 AM PST by Wuli
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
...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.

37 posted on 01/18/2019 12:11:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
“With so much deforestation going on around the world, wild coffee species are being impacted...

Well, there goes 60 pounds of coffee...

38 posted on 01/18/2019 2:25:06 PM PST by GOPJ (Anyone remember MSNBC bimbos crying about out of work steel workers or coal miners or anyone?)
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