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Climate change threatens coffee


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2017 Aug 14, 11:36am   994 views  0 comments

by Dan8267   ➕follow (4)   💰tip   ignore  

Finally some reason that the conservative right might give a shit about climate change.

Climate change will make your coffee cost more and taste worse

Most people think that climate change is real and is already impacting the world. But not many people think that climate change is affecting them. And that’s understandable when you’re focusing on impacts like warmer winters or more intense storms that never happen to hit you. So think about this more direct impact on your life instead: imagine paying way more for coffee that tastes worse.

Does it feel real yet? Because it does to coffee growers, and if they’re worried you should be too. A new report, just the latest in a long string of studies on climate change and coffee production, found that over half of Ethiopia’s current coffee crop grows in areas that won’t be suitable for agriculture in the near future. The findings were published in the journal Nature Plants. Other reports have similar prognostications for the rest of the world: Brazil, Indonesia, Colombia. All these places will see their coffee-producing lands cut in half by 2050.

#scitech #climateChange #politics

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