Everyone loves coffee and it is a part of millions’ daily routines, whether it’s to give yourself a boost of energy before the day ahead or just as a sweet treat.
Coffee is genuinely one of the best things ever discovered. Although I personally don’t feel the boost of caffeine, it tastes amazing.
Coffee has such significance in many topics like culturally, socially, environmentally and economically. Although it is yummy, it does damage to the earth such as increasing deforestation, to make room for these coffee farms, rainforests are often cleared.
This of course isn’t a good thing, For many reasons, one of the main ones to focus on is environmentally. it does damage such as increasing deforestation, to make room for these plants, rainforests are often cleared.
They aren’t typically grown in the United States but if they were, there needs to be specific conditions in order for them to properly grow. First of all, coffee beans come from coffea trees, and the coffee bean is essentially the seed. The beans are best habitable in cool to warm tropical climates however, so countries such as Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Ethiopia. There is reason to believe that climate change will make it harder to grow these plants.
Each year it gets harder and harder to produce quality coffee even in areas that were traditionally coffee sweet spots. This is because of climate change, even now the climate is constantly changing in short periods of time. Eventually climate change will start to drastically change the temperature, precipitation and humidity and make coffee production decrease by a lot.
It’s crazy that when you go to a cafe and order a cup of coffee, you expect to pay at least $6. I can’t imagine how much the price would increase if there is a limited supply of coffee.
Recently, the bird flu has been killing off chickens which limits the amount of supply. When supply is low, the demand for a product goes up which also makes the price higher. From this we can put together that the price for any kind of coffee, whether low quality or high, will skyrocket.
I feel like now more than ever there’s this mindset of “ I care about this but not enough to do anything about it but it’s okay because someone else will do something.” This is so normalized because it always seems like everything eventually works out which is not true.
I know that there are more things to be concerned about than coffee in situations where climate change is at a point of no return, but people might try to care if there’s a threat towards a consumer’s favorite product.
