If you are one of those people that need approx 1.3 Flat Whites before you can function in the morning (if you're not, how do you do it?) then this headline will be more hard hitting than a 4pm caffeine slump.
Coffee. Might. Become. Extinct. And just to be clear, we are holding on to that 'might' as if it were a toasty cuppa on a not-so-toasty day.
According to a recent report by The Climate Institute, coffee is likely to become deceased thanks to global warming. By 2050, it is predicted that the land suitable for farming coffee beans will have halved, due to rising temperatures and a plant-damaging fungi. By 2080, coffee is feared to be no more.
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The reports also suggest that the coffee industry is already suffering, with detrimental changes to taste, flavour and availability happening a lot more quickly than we initially realised.
The report explained, 'Looking ahead, it is hard to see how consumer prices cannot be anything but badly affected by the projected long-term decline in growing area and other impacts of a more hostile climate.More and more extreme weather events in major coffee-producing regions seem set to create supply shortages, and hotter conditions will impair flavour and aroma. Even instant coffee is likely to be hit hard in a world of 3°C or more.'
This news will not only be devastating for coffee drinkers, but even more so, for the millions around the world whose livelihoods depend on the coffee industry. A staggering 125 million people around the world rely on the coffee industry.
Chris Stemman, Executive Director of the British Coffee Association told Grazia, “Climate change is one of the biggest and most important concerns facing the coffee industry, both globally and in the UK."
"We need to increasingly work together and enhance our collaboration as an industry so that we mitigate, plan and prepare for these issues. Importantly that includes supporting individual companies in reducing their own environmental footprints as well as investing in strategies and solutions for the wider coffee industry.”
This comes just weeks after the announcement there may be a shortage of gin.
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