The bad news just keeps coming for us; a new report from The Climate Institute declares that if global warming continues at its current rate, coffee could be extinct by 2080.
It’s expected that half of the world’s coffee farming land will no longer be suitable for plantation by 2050 due to increasing temperatures, fungi and pests.
It's also predicted that wild coffee varieties such as Arabica could become extinct within the next 70 years unless climate change is tackled.
Even before 2080, rising temperatures will affect the quality of our coffee, and we’ll soon be noticing a difference in flavor and aroma.
It will also become more expensive, as it becomes more and more difficult to produce.
The disappearance of the coffee plant would have a profound impact on the 120 million people worldwide whose livelihoods depend on beans – many of whom live in the world’s poorest nations.