Half Of The World's Coffee Could Be Gone By 2050 (HBO)

[@VICENews]

Scientists predict that half of the world’s coffee could be gone by 2050, wiped out, in part, by a fungus known as coffee leaf rust. WATCH NEXT on climate here: bit.ly/2xMlaLE

[@keithesaf08]

Time to legalize marijuana, then the coffee farmers can grow half marijuana and half robusta coffee, so they can still be profitable and the stoners in the coffee shop will be to wasted to notice the difference between arabica and robusta. Problem solved. lol

[@amandamate9117]

Jorge Müller ist 100% some old school nazi refugee!

[@TheWormzerjr]

chemtrails have alot of metal oxides in them. problem solved. its the elites spraying chemtrails. maybe this will make more people up to what is going on. click my name to watch UNnatural DEWsasters

[@dropj3]

man, almost every resource is depleted in 20 to 30 years.. we're in for a hell of a ride.

[@clifjr954]

N. E I know right!!! even the fuckin coffee.i feel sorry for ppl being born now..there adulthood is gonna suck!!

[@TheBigJames]

amen dude I'm pretty nervous, world-wide instability-chaos

[@dropj3]

***** maybe (probably right), but if you're born in poverty and hardship, you're better equipped to deal with it. Past two generations mostly withnesst progress and didn't teach their kids some skill to cope with something like this. BigJames420​ don't be nervous, that would be another problem :). We'll need people to think straight if we want to come up with solutions. It will be tuff and probably not very pleasant, but I think humanity will find solutions.

[@dropj3]

cliftoncharlton Im 25 and will withness this to (at least I hope so!) In the mean time, enjoy every minute of it!

[@burtonl7239]

It's a fungus, not depletion.

[@aDIYCarGuy]

i'm sure marketers will have no problem convincing everyone that robusta is better, so they can raise the price of it and keep making bank

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

eh robusta is just bitterer we're gonna need transgenic robusta or arabica

[@paulocuento9949]

its basic scare tactics to ramp up market value... supply and demand... and because theres low supply of high demand product, they can sell it for double the price

[@applemyomg]

Marketers advertise toothpaste as cavity prevention, so that must be false too.

[@therealquade]

Did y'all learn nothing from the banana?

[@jamesprovost2602]

This Scared me coffee is life.

[@janodefenua4603]

cafeine aint going nowhere pal, them scientist can make it in lab

[@CesarSanchezfool]

I was worried at first but I'll be dead by 2050 so I'm good.

[@rickdeckard5719]

Don't give a shit about your kids?

[@CesarSanchezfool]

Rick Deckard it was a joke

[@thecitizenjoan]

😂

[@amandamate9117]

Jorge Müller ist 100% some old school nazi refugee!

[@mtadams2009]

Sadly I am in the same club.

[@ItsYoYoHo]

the same fate has happened to taxi drivers since uber came on the seen.

[@docbeef79]

funny thing they lost 800mil this year lol

[@RealPsychz]

LittleGojira not really, ubers are only popular in the states, i live in sweden and theres literally 0 ubers in Europe :P

[@RealPsychz]

Synerrox เ u wot m8? :3

[@poopypantsdiggity7691]

LittleGojira taxi drivers lives matter

[@jasoncoomer1226]

Coffee bean plants like Ginseng are plants that grow in biodiversity with other plants.When you remove those plants you also remove protections each plant share with each other.When you put plants such as this into a production scale you remove their ability to protect themselves

[@redman9pablo]

Going to be countless animals extinct in 50 years time yet people have a melt down over coffee.

[@illdrumatik391]

adam c Sources?

[@tfn5254]

Gerardo Ceballos

[@KofiNateDogg]

If developing countries lose species but the quality of human life improves, what right does a Westerner have to judge such a trade off?

[@MD-gz7ns]

I guess losing world history is better than losing coffee.

[@creepinwhileyousleepin]

someone better fix this shit. living without coffee is simply not an option for me anymore

[@DOUBLEDEFENSE]

get off the other drugs or food and you will be fine I drank tons of coffee now 1 cup max or none it was the dead sugar intake combined with weed coffee was my only chance

[@GardenerEarthGuy]

Why not breed the two with selective resistance? These are issues all farmers have, but uneducated ones have the hardest time adjusting.

[@killercaos123]

They MIGHT have been pushing the Climate Change button a lil much, but it's still a valid reason.... Just a lil over-used. (also note, they didn't say stuff like "human induced climate change").

[@GardenerEarthGuy]

+watercup123456 right, row cropping a monocrop... To think this won't get worked through is silly. Sure, leave it up to these gold rush farmers and it won't, but maybe something as simple as alternating strains in the row crop will help. We'll see...

[@GardenerEarthGuy]

+killercaos123 climate always changes, crop failures happen, people learn. It's what agriculture is about, some years are better than others. Wonder how sulphur applications would work on coffee, because it's good on rust for other crops.

[@afromaximus]

Arabica is a species, there are many varieties under this including some rust resistant strains. I hope that the farmers that have been affect can get access to these in the future as robusta is more or less like instant in flavour.

[@borgyoh]

if it were that easy the coffee companies like starbucks woukd invest in it.

[@Jake-rs9nq]

Caffeine free is the way to go

[@snakei01]

I just bought mad stock of coffee in Wall Street

[@julianrueda1134]

rip

[@cronosx6174]

It is very easy to solve any future coffee scarcity. Just increase the price of coffee to 500%, and if it doesn't work then increase the price equal to gold or diamonds. A more extreme measure would be to make it illegal to consume.

[@cozylime_2006]

Then there would be a black market for coffee

[@baily492]

Least I'm not addicted to coffee.

[@ShidaiTaino]

Coffee > Weed

[@WhateverWasLeft]

I like both. My coffee in the morning, my chiba chiba in the evening.

[@moseyburns1614]

Also very good together! Their flavours compliment each other nicely. I also recommend putting cannabis tincture or an infused sugar in a morning coffee.

[@DOUBLEDEFENSE]

well you must be chilling

[@MrLeifbob]

Coffee + weed ❤

[@imakro69]

for those of you who don't know the solution might be permaculture, they just need to find another Crop that can make it impossible for fungus to flourish

[@anandananda2277]

Perhaps it is a monoculture curse. My distant uncle in Sumatera can survive when palm oil price plumetted since he has rubber, avocado, coconut and bamboo on his land. But he is still under a mercy of weather and climate just like any other farmer and plantador.

[@Erik_Emer]

So sad to see when people are changing for the worst.

[@christopherbarber5283]

as a historian i must say this fungus has NOT been the primary cause of english tea culture----coffee was traditionally known as "arabic wine" when first imported to the west during the 16th and 17th centuries. the english chose tea instead because they didn't have the capacity to roast, grind, and brew, and figured dropping tea leaves in hot water would be better due to its convenience

[@xxmanutd]

if GMO scientists get on this, we won't have that problem, but the public out lash of the treehuggers won't let that happpen!

[@johnkorn3944]

I am still seeing product labeled "non gmo" and it's fucking infuriating.

[@Hedgpig]

We'll need to grow some genetically-modified scientists first

[@kilobyteify]

thats not how GMOs work... This is a fungus problem, not a disease problem, altering the genetic makeup of a plant wont make it resistant to fungus. Granted there are efforts to create plants resistant to fungus, but no commercially available plants yet. The coffee business is an extremely lucrative one, so if such product did exist, it would be widely used. However GMOs are just a bandaid on the real problem that is global warming, normally the fungus would be trivial, however due to wetter and warmer climates its killing all the plants. Also, +Jhon Korn why do non gmo products make you so angry? If people dont want gmos in their food, then let them be, just dont buy the product. Its not going to effect you in anyway, calm down,

[@danieldavis162]

"Tree huggers", dude, most people who work in improving tree genetics are environmentalists politically. Just because some delusional folks in the USA hate GMOs doesn't mean environmentalists are generally opposed to them.

[@atlastobin7837]

So true brother!!

[@ROCdevelopments]

They're gonna switch to growing cocaine, I guarantee it.

[@stoyandimitrov1955]

sounds like an opportunity for genetically resistant coffee strains to replace the current crop, anyone know of companies working on fungus resistant coffee plant strains?

[@TheModernHermeticist]

The shrooms are fighting back

[@acosmiccrisis3741]

Man had been battling plague since the beginning of time, this is nothing new. And the strongest thing, man has, is his mind. Testing, studying, working. We'll find a cure, we'll treat it. In time.

[@EcoMouseChannel]

Funny how it never occurs to anyone to fight the fungus, but blame climate change. I had a plant fungus issue, quite similar. Then I sprayed a water borax mist on the leaves. Fungus gone.

[@FightClubStellingen]

Then I guess I have to switch too beer in the morning again...

[@CCCFellowship1]

Great Video! Why cant coffee be grown in controlled environments... Such as Greenhouses???

[@moderatesunited]

We'll just use genetic engineering. Problem solved.

[@L3uX]

As much as this would seriously help ppl/us quantify climate change (imagine caffeine withdrawal, drug incentives are very very strong motivation), arent there other ways around this? GMO, etc?

[@BeastlyAnteater]

MikSIK. I was wondering the same, but instead of GMOs maybe growing polycultural farms instead of monocultures

[@kilobyteify]

its a fungus though, itd be hard to work your way around it. Gmos typically are used only to alter the genetic makeup of a plant, doing things like allowing the plant to take in salt water. Polycultures wont matter or effect the problem at all, as its an outside organism causing the issue. Either fix global warming, grow everything in a controlled environment, or somehow eradicate the fungus without killing off other organisms.

[@SeventhSamurai72]

Very informative, thank you for posting!

[@jwilson3985]

Why did the coffee plants die in Sri Lanka? Climate change is obvious, climate inherently changes. As to ecosystems. I wonder if climate played a roll back then?

[@louyht7]

Vietnam is second largest coffee exporter after Brazil and we exporting Robusta coffee bean. Our Vietnamese coffee taste great even though it's lower quality than Arabica coffee bean.

[@Mpiresports]

This inspired me to make my docuseries called Coffee and Trap. First episode is out now on my oage.

[@ddsjgvk]

What's oage

[@stephanoya]

I am drinking a really gourmet cup of coffee right now.

[@rudysalas9138]

Josh Lee enjoy because it might be your last

[@killercaos123]

Can i Irish up your coffee for you? ;)

[@addictedtopiano]

I buy the gourmet expensive stuff because when I drink it I want to taste it.

[@deenectar]

killercaos123 please do

[@stephanoya]

addictedtopiano When Bonnie goes shopping she buys shit.

[@Generik97]

This should be an easy fix just genetically modify the arabica plants to be immune to the rust fungus...

[@GarrySkipPerkins]

This is one-sided. Coffee production is not declining worldwide. It may be declining in Central America (which has a host of other problems), but production in other major producers such as Brazil, Vietnam and other nations is just fine if not increasing. Furthermore, coffee was not necessarily supposed to be grown in Central America (unlike, say, the Andes). Is it that big of a deal if our coffee comes from Africa or Asia instead of Latin America? Who cares?

[@soupman1919]

Garry Perkins easy for you to say. your livelihood doesn't depend on the health of your coffee plantation.

[@Helena20254]

Coffee ... Gods gift to humanity .. Let's help preserve it

[@TheModernHermeticist]

Get it before its gone

[@blah7983]

I prefer tea anyway. Black in the morning, green in the afternoon, and herbal at night

[@7lllll]

look at chocolate today. cheaper chocolates use "refined sugar" to compensate for the shortage. coffee will probably do something similar soon

[@petrosporfiridis8773]

The big coffee companies are going to find ways to solve it they are not going to go buncrupt because of a fungus

[@davidr9589]

They'll spray cancer causing fungicides on their crops, killing their consumers. But hey, that's the cost of doing business. These modern corporations act like they are doing the Lord's work, but in fact they resemble 1930s Germany more and more every single day.

[@cozylime_2006]

True

[@angelocervantes4950]

As long as the other half is still here

[@famous5693]

Good news to me, I love tea

[@K9SupplyTV]

Coffee rust is treatable...

[@wwlee5]

People should drink Robusta. Why? Because at coffee shops using Arabica, using the French press or other method to extract the caffeine and getting an expresso as a result is NO different from brewing Robusta regularly.

[@MichaelMyers-jr6yg]

What if they grew it hydroponic style?

[@themiddleman5886]

How am I supposed to go to my local coffee shop to discuss works by Karl Marx, Buddhism, and tolerance? I guess I'll have to settle with tea while reading the God delusion, or while I type on my blog "Buddhism is a lifestyle not a religion for the intelligent."

[@jonatasnogueira7525]

0:10 Pfff that aint coffee

[@liesumitro]

No matter pro animals or pro plants or somebody gonna die in 50 years or the gender of reporter, we should take care and responsible our planet. The weather is changing not only because of natural phenomena, humans also participate in it. We can never know what the impact of an animal or a plant extinct from this earth in this circle of life.

[@anthonygarcia3174]

No more coffee damn that's all all bad

[@mindbodylightsound10]

I just wanted to see a short video on coffee and now I'm wondering why Joseph Gordon-Levitt decided to become a she-male Vice reporter.

[@emanonymous]

Looks like Monsanto has got a new plant to mutate

[@computerguy1372]

That's why we should make coca tea legal and free up farmers options for the future!

[@StandedInUtah]

There is no fungicide that kills the rust or hybrid plants that resist the rust but produce quality coffee? What kind of research are the farmers, universities, or even governments in these regions doing to solve the problem? We need to be forward thinking if we are going to deal with these issues. Just saying "We give up" is anti humanity and the opposite of human history so far.

[@MrGabiiiii94]

Of course there is research but that doesnt mean that they have any solution or anything similar right now

[@StandedInUtah]

Gabriel Oliveira The tone of the report was: No coffee by 2050!! Everyone panic.

[@Sha0linShadowb0xing]

Trust me they're researching everything you could think of, they just don't tell you. This channel isn't exactly a scientific channel, it's mostly entertainment. Just be sure to buy a couple trucks of freeze dried coffee and freeze it, sell it later for maximum profit if something isn't invented.

[@StandedInUtah]

DrewD I just get tied of the hysterical reporting about things. Everything is taken to the worst possible senario and we are all supposed to freak.

[@Sha0linShadowb0xing]

Stranded in Utah All 4 da views

[@z1lla4]

isnt it weird how sometimes hotcheetos arent so hot, and sometimes its very hot?

[@tiesthijsthejs]

I think this is 2016's most depressing info so far. A world without coffee. How are we not massively gonna do coke....

[@kevinphan706]

I'm sure that Monsanto or some other bio giant will make a strain resistant to coffee rust and wring poorer farmers dry with royalties

[@Linux567]

There will be an alternative to save coffee, too many people love coffee.

[@ImNoctica]

Did they explain how the disease is caused by a warming climate?

[@ImNoctica]

Wait if it happened 200 years ago too then how can you say it's a result of global warming without evidence?

[@dewmonstermash]

Cros they didn't say it was caused by climate change, they just noted that the warming climate made it easier for the fungus to spread. These higher rates of disease and spreads of fungus within plants are well documented

[@ImNoctica]

dewmonstermash and yet Vice don't use sources or cite studies? I can't check now but I will tomorrow. I know vice likes to put a spin on things

[@nickcaniglia9321]

www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-and/climate-coffee Here is a NOAA study on climate change and how it impacts coffee. The reason why warming helps rust spread is because it can reach high altitudes as opposed to before where it was confined to lower ones.

[@ImNoctica]

Nick Caniglia Thank you

[@ElectronicYouth]

We really gotta do something about this.

[@visionplant]

I'm drinking yerba mate right now, motherfuckers. Yerba mate for life! Yera mate > Other Teas > Coffee > Energy Drinks

[@paulristow9066]

About 5 years ago the news was bacon was going to become rare and expensive hasn't happened.

[@10phoenix01BlogspotCoUk]

Easy, just switch to marijuana

[@TeddehSpaghetti]

Monsanto better not let this happen.

[@mustardman2974]

This video triggered me, coffee must live forever.

[@leloodallasmultipass]

upside: Coca could replace these coffee crops.

[@richiev8454]

It's all starbutts fault

[@Stikkelsbær]

Meh. I prefer tea anyway.

[@raultapia637]

Bravo something interesting. Thank You

[@Rodoadrenalina]

Well as a non drinker, I am happy I didn't fell into it.

[@thecitizenjoan]

Not good for me that’s only 32 years away

[@calical26]

there will be gmo coffie to replace it

[@swagastaunite]

don't drink coffee so i'm gucci but it's upsetting because coffee is going to be treated like a cocktail at a bar i won't be surprised if a cup of some good ass coffee starts at $11

[@romanmakarov3062]

song title please @0:05

[@zsedcftglkjh]

Look into the coffee market today and compare it to the scare tactics of this video...there is no "imminent" danger.

[@patrickm7754]

How are college kids going to survive now...

[@mikoparolanto]

Vice couldn't find a Spanish-speaking reporter to send abroad? I am sure you could find a Spanish-speaker somewhere in Brooklyn.

[@ms.6703]

are u serious? they'll discover a new coffee alternative in a couple years.. starbucks will buy it, and you'll all have to buy it from them

[@jaimedelgado7529]

The bottom line is Monsanto will come in with their GMO mutant coffee

[@adamchase8985]

I thought it was all the poppy they have growing next to the coffee hmm...

[@superchile0083]

If 7-11 had wi-fi, I would drink coffee there everyday.

[@kieranb7747]

TEA > COFFEE.

[@j-pvergaman7292]

As long as we dont run out of cannabis

[@ferritrat4239]

That’s just to stupid to believe

[@fladoodledooper]

I'm sure we could cross breed arabica and robusta. or genetically modify arabica to withstand the rust.

[@havenweber5846]

Half of the coffee by 2050??? Seriously!!! More than half of the world will be uninhabitable by 2050. Coffee. .. WTF?? On the bright side, glad I don't drink coffee..

[@antalsiby]

Just drink tea

[@allstar930]

Say what? This sucks. Still, robusta is just fine with me because I use a french press. French press makes every coffee taste amazing.

[@matthewdoyle8644]

And I have never drank coffee in my life 😂😂😂😂

[@kathleenmckenna1803]

Oh man. This made my heart skip a beat

[@ybhandari]

No big deal...we can all switch to Soykaf.

[@gorfulator]

Meh. I should cut down anyway.

[@satchboogie2058]

Why does the presenter has a female voice? Is he sick?

[@jellyfrosh9102]

it's a joke

[@SuperTheguy1234]

one of the worst jokes I have ever read. it comes off as if this guy is a sexist asswad

[@redpilled_1017]

Satch Boogie I think so! His butt and chest is swollen!

[@SuperTheguy1234]

me too dude, but just because we both like frozen water doesn't mean you are any less of a giant jackass

[@satchboogie2058]

Committed Burroti Please tell me about your preferred pronouns

[@dongnguyen4726]

I don’t if it’s arabica or robusta... coffees is coffees

[@Ucuz_]

Don't worry, people will find a way

[@0fficer47]

Are bio domes in development?

[@mordant221]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jamesonkoolio5861]

good riddance caffeine is a terribly addictive drug

[@mermaniel]

That dude reporter is pretty cool.