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Coffee under threat?

t-dugong

Beach bum, Esq.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46845461

The first full assessment of risks to the world's coffee plants shows that 60% of 124 known species are on the edge of extinction.
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Research published in the journal, Science Advances, found conservation measures were "inadequate" for wild coffees, including those considered "critical" for long-term global coffee production.

The study found that 75 wild coffee species are considered threatened with extinction, 35 are not threatened and too little is known about the remaining 14 to make any judgement.

So, is this for real or just journalists misinterpreting what scientists said as usual?

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaav3473
 
I suppose that when you leave things alone in nature to die they might actually die when you completely change the global ecology. Who could have seen this coming? :rolleyes:

If only there were a way to take samples out of the wild and protect them and cultivate them into sustainability. Any way at all. What a conundrum. :coffee: :unsure:
 
I suppose that when you leave things alone in nature to die they might actually die when you completely change the global ecology. Who could have seen this coming? :rolleyes:

If only there were a way to take samples out of the wild and protect them and cultivate them into sustainability. Any way at all. What a conundrum. :coffee::unsure:

If you find one tell the rest of the world. They're panicking since coffee seeds don't survive the methods they use for storage in seed banks.
 
If you find one tell the rest of the world. They're panicking since coffee seeds don't survive the methods they use for storage in seed banks.
Solutions are known. They just aren't taken because apparently this really important thing might cost a bit more to protect, and we don't want to actually spend money. Better to talk about it and cry.

Cryo storage is a known option for coffee seed banking. Maintaining botanical crops is still possible, though there is much hand-wringing about coffee genocide as crops might cross pollinate unless you spend more time and money to ensure that species don't interact. Though that is almost a political parody of coffee interracial purity. Either way has more cost, but it is doable if there is actual will.
 
You sure it's not the pumpkin spice thingie? That was surprisingly good.
She likes pumpkin spice, so probably, tho she usually get a mocha or the regular coffee. Point is, coffee is beautiful, and need to be saved by morally questionable actions. *winks and giggles*
 
The first full assessment of risks to the world's coffee plants shows that 60% of 124 known species are on the edge of extinction.

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Remember Theodore Roosevelt? He had asthma when he was young and drank a lot of coffee when he was an adult, partially due to distancing away from British things and mostly because it kept his asthma in control I shit you not. Coffee has compounds useful for controlling asthma...

... that and the US is going to practically collapse because it won't be able to keep producing enough coffee to keep the US work environment going.
 
... that and the US is going to practically collapse because it won't be able to keep producing enough coffee to keep the US work environment going.
Practically you say? Bwahahahahahahahahahaha... and it'll be followed by Africa and elsewhere.
 
Practically you say? Bwahahahahahahahahahaha... and it'll be followed by Africa and elsewhere.
The key factor is that if the US economy goes, then the rest of the world goes with it...
 
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