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The End of Cheap Coffee

mollymillions:

Between 2006 and 2009, the Colombian yield shrank by a quarter—from 12 million bags to 7.8 million, the lowest yield in 33 years. The forecast doesn’t look good for the rest of the coffee-growing world, either: more pests in East Africa, more hurricanes in Central America, more droughts in Indonesia. Global coffee stockpiles are close to record lows. “There is simply not enough coffee in the world,” Jose Sette, now the former executive director of the International Coffee Organization, told Bloomberg in February. Combine this with other economic realities—the rising cost of fertilizer and the fact that young people, bound for the cities, aren’t following in their parents’ coffee-growing footsteps—and you can understand the term that Peter Baker has coined as a warning: “peak coffee.” Just like with oil, the world is maxing out the volume of coffee it can sustain.

YIKES!!!

Don’t worry.

Once global warming REALLY kicks in we’ll get all our coffee from Canada.

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    by Zak Stone for Good.
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    What’re they gonna do with all these 100yen ($1.20) coffee vending machines in Japan? On the other hand, Starbucks is...
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    That’s it, I’m cutting back to 5 a day! (Not really I don’t drink that much for starters.) What about the coffee growing...
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    Things that would push me to environmentalism. Coffee is my one true love!
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    great little post on coffee - stolen from mike that stole it from I don’t know where:
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    I should just refer this article to rude customers who complain about the rising coffee prices.
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    coffee’s cheap? where?
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    Haven’t read this yet, but this is the most horrible thing I could imagine. I mean, PEAK COFFEE?!?!! ::creys::
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    Don’t worry. Once global warming REALLY kicks in we’ll get all our coffee from Canada.
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    This is not a good sign.
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