Doomed to no coffee by 2080 :(

Old Man · 8 Nov 2012 at 13:22

At least I'll be long gone by then, but the thought of losing good coffee has got to be one of the worst nightmares there are.

See:

http://www.lloyds.com/news-and-insight/news-and-features/dow-jones/article/11232/arabica-coffee-could-be-extinct-in-the-wild-within-70-years-study

Enjoy what time you have left

Flibster · 8 Nov 2012 at 13:59

Hmmmm. Interesting, but I'm not sure about it. It's been engineered in the past, and will happen again.

It's too profitable.

Bennie-Mac · 8 Nov 2012 at 14:01

Ill be long dead by then. Probably from coffee related causes.

Belmit · 8 Nov 2012 at 14:40

Flibster said:
Hmmmm. Interesting, but I'm not sure about it. It's been engineered in the past, and will happen again.

I'm pretty sure we could reverse engineer it from your blood.

Infidelus · 8 Nov 2012 at 14:47

I'll be dead by then, and even if I wasn't, I only rarely drink coffee anyway, so I can't see it having much impact on my lifestyle.

krooton · 8 Nov 2012 at 15:08

Wow, the second most traded item in the world is a low level drug.

Flibster · 8 Nov 2012 at 15:41

Belmit said:
I'm pretty sure we could reverse engineer it from your blood.

Blood?

Oh that nasty red stuff in my caffeine stream.

Dayzed&Confused · 8 Nov 2012 at 17:21

I might still be around then, maybe this is my cause of death?

IRLeetly · 13 Nov 2012 at 15:49

Weird this has happened in the TV show "fringe" in the Walternate dimension.
Just thought I'd add that random piece of information.

Craig1981 · 13 Nov 2012 at 17:49

I guess we'll have to change and become a nation of tea drinkers instead.

oh wait...