This hits home for me. No soy latte? WTF!
Coffee. Holy Shit! Coffee?!
A two-degree Celsius temperature rise in the coffee regions of Guatemala, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, and Mexico, along with a projected five- to 10-percent decrease in rainfall, could lead to a nearly 40 percent decrease in land suitable for growing coffee crops in those countries. Your $10 latte is almost ready.
All of us have things we take for granted; some are simple like a morning cup of coffee or a slice of all-American cherry pie, well in about fifty years when the effects of climate change are more pronounced, the simple things we now take for granted will no longer be a part of our lives.
Matter has compiled a list of soon to be unavailable places, things and activities which will probably not be around in 20/50 years.
Matter has done a great job with the list which includes lovely Illustrations by Kurt McRobert and Photo-illustrations by Rich Petrucci, so take a look.
Bye, bye, Miss American Pie
Cherries
Take, for instance, the ones found in your favorite cherry pie. Eighty percent of tart cherries come from a single five-county area in Michigan, all of which is threatened. So if the anti-climate change “Save the Cherry” campaign, which was launched in July at the National Cherry Festival, is a bust, look forward to later blossoms, unpredictable cherry harvests, and empty fruit stands, as happened in 2012, when an abnormal freeze-thaw cycle decimated the state’s crops.
The part of Australia where the food comes from
The Part of Australia Where the Food Comes From
Drought in The Murray-Darling Basin, Australia’s breadbasket, is becoming so normal that people have begun using the term “dryness,” to suggest permanence. Along with local milk prices, global rice prices are showing the strain.
Could California with its seemingly permanent drought status be far behind?