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| Because of climate change the daily caffeine hit could become difficult to find and more expensive. |
Maybe climate change
is about to get the attention is should have had for years and maybe it
will arise in a most unlikely way.
The warming of our planet is shifting climatic zones and
within that reducing those areas in which coffee can be successfully grown.
And so now the millions of coffee drinkers in Australia, and
of course all around the world, will suddenly find and pay for their daily
caffeine-hit somewhat more difficult.
Maybe, just maybe, that understandable injury to their lifestyle
might be enough to trigger their interest in mitigating climate change or working
with an adaptation idea.
Writing in today’s Melbourne Age in a story headed: “Brewed awakening may leave a bitter aftertaste” environmental editor, Tom Arup, has
warned of a significant disruption to coffee production as the planet warms.
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