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Climate, Habitat Threaten Wild Coffee Species

Posted by timothy on from the ok-panic dept.

An anonymous reader writes "BBC reports that Dr. Aaron Davis of the Royal Botanical Gardens claims 'almost three-quarters of the world's wild coffee species are threatened, as a result of habitat loss and climate change. "Conserving the genetic diversity within this genus has implications for the sustainability of our daily cup, particularly as coffee plantations are highly susceptible to climate change.'"

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  1. Not a new warning by phlinn · · Score: 3, Informative

    As found on the warmlist, this isn't the first time climate change has been accused of threatening coffee. Amazing how climate change seems to be the bane of all existence...

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  2. Re:Watch out for the USA, Cameroon! by CrimsonAvenger · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oh wait, when their access to oil was threatened they just invaded an oil producing country.

    Someday, the people who say this are going to learn how stupid it is.

    The USA has never imported oil from Iraq. Not now, not when Saddam was in charge, not before that.

    The USA imports less than 10% of its oil from the Middle East. The largest source of imported oil in the USA is that internationally known terrorist hotspot Canada...

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  3. Banana monoculture has failed before by fantomas · · Score: 3, Informative

    Until the 1950s, the majority of bananas consumed via expert markets were of the Gros Michel variety. However these were very susceptible to Panama disease. A substitute had to be found and we now mainly eat the Vietnamese Cavendish variety.

    Banana monoculture is certainly capable of failing.