“I went out the kitchen to make coffee – yards of coffee. Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The life blood of tired men.” – Raymond Chandler
Coffee is a multi-billion-dollar business. It is impossible to survive without it. You’d probably collapse on the ground in the fetal position, waiting for coffee being poured down your throat.
Could the days of no coffee become the future?
A new study is out and it warns that coffee trees are dying.
According to the Science Advances Journal, 75 coffee species are “threatened” with extinction, another 13 are “critically” endangered, and 40 are considered “endangered.” There are an additional 22 species of coffee trees that are “vulnerable.”
Is it time to panic, hit the streets, and hoard years’ worth of coffee beans?
From Liberty Nation:
“One good thing about coffee is the species of trees that may die off still have the potential to be used for coffee breeding purposes. This means they can be manipulated in such a way as to reproduce coffees for the future. Horticulturalists believe they can do this by working with a variety of trees that tend to be more disease-resistant and able to withstand harsh climate conditions. Eventually, this will result in a hardy coffee crop with enhanced sustainability.”
If coffee went extinct, life would not be worth living.
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