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The average person will only realize that something is really changing when they have to drastically change their consumption habits, and it will be too late to something about it
Why?
Why they will only realize when their consumption is affected, or why it will be too late?
Brazil's Embrapa is trying to breed Robusta to have a taste profile more closely matching Arabica, whilst also resisting the heat better. Difficult challenge given Robusta tastes like burnt rubber.
This is gonna be like the Gros Michel banana thing again isn't it - where decades from now almost none of the world's coffee will taste as good as it used to, and nobody quite knows why.
Very likely, yes
I doubt because in that case we do have seeds of the plant and it can be put in a greenhouse, generally the situation is way different, i'il explain myself better:
Gran michele is now extinct because of how it was cultivated; In practice, to avoid having seeds in the fruit, production was carried out using cuttings, so practically all Gran Michele plants were clones of a group of other Gran Michele plants, meaning that genetic mutations never developed. Since none of them had developed a mutation capable of resisting a fungus (the name of which I cannot remember), they ALL died and we simply didn't had seeds
You can still buy the Gros Michel banana nowadays. It's not extinct, but is a rare and expensive speciality, rather than the common type of banana we see on the shelves like it used to be.
$37 USD per banana, on this particular site
If climate change makes growing Arabica coffee commercially non-viable at scale and all the growers move to hardier alternatives, then Arabica will still exist - absolutely - but instead of being the coffee you can drink every day it will also become a rare and expensive speciality, just like the banana.
Quote did not age well.
Wow that's gone up me and a few coworkers ordered a box a couple of years ago and it was like $9 per banana.
They were good, I see the appeal of the variety, but they were not $9 banana good. Let alone $37 banana good.
Robusta tastes like burnt rubber
I will not accept this baseless slander! Vietnamese coffee (which is basically always robusta) mixed with sweetened condensed milk is the best coffee known to man and I will allow no different opinion.
with sweetened condensed milk
To be fair, it's almost impossible to screw up condensed milk, it always tastes good.
I’ve been to Vietnam several times, and their coffee is basically crack. I couldn't stop drinking it.
WE NEED NEPTUNIAN ICE STAT
Solving the problem once and for all.
But, wouldn't...
"ONCE AND FOR ALL!"
If coffee goes, I'm done with this shithole existence.
It just means instead of Arabica type beans, we will have to choke down robusta, the basis of cheap industrial coffee.
Aparently you didn't see the chart showing Vietnam's robusta threat in this.
We don't get coffee, and Nazis are back!? Fuck this world...
Seriously. I had better die before this happens.
Good luck with that! Hopefully cancer. Cancer isn't so bad, right?
No one gonna miss you. Bye Felicia.
Such a weird response.
Yea? Is it so much better than if coffee leaves I'm going to leave this shit hole existence? Worse?
Please educate us all in your quantifications and qualifications.
Equally weird response.
Anyway, may I suggest going outside a bit?
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