People (including Starbucks) have worried for several years about the potential effects of climate change on coffee crops. There is now a report suggesting that the popular Arabica coffee bean will be decimated in many of its current locations by the effects of global warming (http://www.ibtimes.com/climate-change-effects-coffee-production-how-hotter-weather-killing-global-arabica-1905151). This is especially the case in areas where the plants cannot be moved to a higher altitude. There is now speculation that the only way of maintaining production of this bean might involve genetic modification to produce coffee plants resistant to the effects of elevated temperature and restricted water supply.
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No morning coffee for me is a first world problem, for the bean and the people dependant on it's cultivation it's catastrophic. This is why so few people appreciate the effects of climate change, they would maybe think oh I'll drink something else then not appreciating the truly devastating effects we are all having on our planet of carrying on in our priveledged mindset.
As a species we don't seem to have evolved much from treating symptoms and not the causes.
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