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The World’s Most Popular Coffee Species Are Going Extinct, Study Says
Geek.com ^ | 1/16/2019 | Stephanie Valera

Posted on 01/17/2019 5:32:47 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts

Coffee lovers, here’s one more reason to savor that morning cup o’ joe. Research shows 60 percent of coffee species found in the wild could soon go extinct.

In a new study published in the journal Science Advances on Wednesday, researchers at Kew Royal Botanic Gardens say factors putting the future of coffee at risk include climate change, deforestation, droughts, and plant diseases.

According to the study, a collaboration between scientists from the UK and Ethiopia, out of 124 types of wild coffee, 75 are at risk of extinction. About 35 of the 124 species grow in areas with no conservation protections.

“The important thing to remember is that coffee requires a forest habitat for its survival,” Aaron P. Davis, head of coffee research at Kew, who co-led the work, told CNN. “With so much deforestation going on around the world, wild coffee species are being impacted at an alarming rate.”

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TOPICS: Agriculture; Food; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: coffee; completebs; gettherope; globalwarminghoax; globullwarming; scaremongering
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Well, well, well. "Climate Change" or as we like to call it, bull$h!t, strikes again!

More FUD. Could it be a well planned campaign to put pressure on coffee prices to rise? Again?

Personally, I don't care. Coffee is a luxury item. I can live without it. And besides, in 10-20 years when the study says this extinction will reach its apex, I'll be dead.

1 posted on 01/17/2019 5:32:47 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts
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“The important thing to remember is that coffee requires a forest habitat for its survival,”

Indeed. I mean, they've tried to have coffee plantations and grow this stuff as a real agricultural enterprise, but you can't do it. Nope. You have to wander through the forest looking for stray coffee plants. It's the only way to get the beans. [/s]

2 posted on 01/17/2019 5:36:48 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Hope Folgers is the first to go. Lol.


3 posted on 01/17/2019 5:36:51 AM PST by amihow
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Or... it could not.

I guess cultivating it on purpose didn’t cross their minds?


4 posted on 01/17/2019 5:37:27 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Nobody drinks that coffee anymore it’s too popular.


5 posted on 01/17/2019 5:37:56 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Vote your bible.)
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+1 Yogi


6 posted on 01/17/2019 5:39:17 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Read the lede and knew that “climate change” would appear.
Bingo.
It’s the first of N “you are something you like will due due to climate change” stories that’ll appear today, where N is a large number.

Journalists.

You know, the folks who failed fifth grade science for poets.


7 posted on 01/17/2019 5:40:37 AM PST by Da Coyote
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Plus, they are talking about wild coffee plants, not cultivated coffee. To link wild coffee to my morning cup is disingenuous.


8 posted on 01/17/2019 5:41:59 AM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

9 posted on 01/17/2019 5:42:26 AM PST by Phillyred
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Start a new coffee brand, totally focused on these at risk varieties, and they won't be facing extinction very long. Called it ‘Paleo Coffee’ etc., offer an ‘ancient and at risk coffee of the week’ to consumers to try, organically farm these coffees, and offer consumers kits which allow them to grow one or more of these at risk coffee plants at home in pots, and they will become the most prolific coffee plants in the world. Just sayin..
10 posted on 01/17/2019 5:42:31 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Coffee originally came from Africa. It’s now grown in tropical areas all over the world. The kind people drink has no more chance of going extinct than people are. Just another ramped up scare tactic for the CO2 scam.


11 posted on 01/17/2019 5:43:10 AM PST by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong)
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Drink tea.


12 posted on 01/17/2019 5:47:44 AM PST by raybbr (The left is a poison on society. There is no antidote. Running its course will be painful.)
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To: Da Coyote

Speaking of math, as suckers for CO2 scam goes to zero broadcast FUD goes to infinity.


13 posted on 01/17/2019 5:48:57 AM PST by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

how many polar bears drink coffee?


14 posted on 01/17/2019 5:55:16 AM PST by dontreadthis (A TIMELINE OF TREASON on Profile Page)
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I don't care about coffee but when chickens go extinct I'm in trouble.

Chickens

15 posted on 01/17/2019 5:56:13 AM PST by Fai Mao (There is no rule of law in the US until The PIAPS is executed.)
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“out of 124 types of wild coffee, 75 are at risk of extinction”

And how much of the coffee drinking population is drinking coffee made from these “wild” species of coffee beans? Very little. So just what is it that coffee lovers have to worry about? Nothing.


16 posted on 01/17/2019 6:01:28 AM PST by Wuli
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All species, plant or animal, are at risk from something. It’s the way nature works.

The only real way to protect a species is to put it in an environment where it isn’t threatened.

Then it will evolve into something that has no defensive properties and is dependent on its artificial environment for survival.

Anyone frightened by this line of thought should go their safe space now.

;)


17 posted on 01/17/2019 6:02:43 AM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Wuli
The more varieties there are, the less likely it is that one disease could wipe them out.

Also, we don't want wild plant species going extinct before we've had a chance to check them for medicinal properties.

18 posted on 01/17/2019 6:03:42 AM PST by x
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To: Wuli

Places where wild coffee grows is being used to grow proceeded coffee for starbucks and all the other coffee producers who have a name and $$ to spend.

I think Starbucks is causing the problem....yeah, let’s get the climate change wack jobs to blame Starbucks. It is always fun to see libs attack libs.


19 posted on 01/17/2019 6:06:29 AM PST by PSUGOP
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

I think my Taster’s Choice is safe.


20 posted on 01/17/2019 6:06:59 AM PST by moovova
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