The global coffee crisis is coming
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Length: 11min 34sec (694 seconds)
Published: Mon Aug 10 2020
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Coffee is one of the most popular commodities on Earth. It's grown by nearly 125 million farmers, from Latin America to Africa to Asia. However, as man-made climate change warms the atmosphere, the notoriously particular coffee plant is struggling. Coffee has to be grown in particular conditions which leave a relatively small, rapidly shrinking percentage of land on earth suitable for growing coffee.
Places like Colombia, which have traditionally had the ideal climate and elevation to grow Arabica coffee, are changing. Higher heat makes coffee plants more susceptible to overheating/drying out as well as funguses and diseases. Now, experts estimate the amount of land that can sustain coffee will fall 50 percent by 2050.
It's not just a crisis for consumers but for the millions who have made a livelihood out of growing coffee. Coffee Prices have also fallen to break-even in the last couple years, leaving small farmers (who grow most of the world’s coffee) in precarious economic situations, unable to invest in defending their livelihoods against climate change
I can handle everything collapse is going to throw at me. But only if I have my coffee.
Can black tea replace coffee https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/caffeine-in-tea-vs-coffee#1 seems I need to drink twice as much to get the same effect.
Goddamn it! Not coffee, too!
This was a good watch. We purchase from a coffee cooperative and I am not sure of a better way to make sure farmers are paid equitably.
damn, this fuckin sucks.
I need coffee... I need chocolate. The spice must flow!
As long as i can still have Matcha....
Yaupon lol. Formerly humid subtropical regions of the world will become the new caffeine producers.