DoomsdaysCWI'd rather just have a cup of tea in the morning if there's no coffee -- since I'm gluten intolerant, and barley is a "no no" for me (one of the coffee substitutes is made from barley and chickpeas). Attempting to grow tea plants this year.
The #Coffee Apocalypse
Are you ready for coffee made from chickpeas? Soon, you might not have a choice.
By L.V. Anderson
April 10, 2024
"When Henri Kunz was growing up in West Germany in the 1980s, he used to drink an instant coffee substitute called Caro, a blend of barley, chicory root, and rye roasted to approximate the deep color and invigorating flavor of real coffee. 'We kids drank it,' Kunz remembered recently. 'It had no caffeine, but it tasted like coffee.'
"As an adult, Kunz loves real coffee. But he also believes that its days are numbered. Climate change is expected to shift the areas where coffee can grow, with some researchers estimating that the most suitable land for coffee will shrink by more than half by 2050 and that hotter temperatures will make the plants more vulnerable to pests, blight, and other threats. At the same time, demand for coffee is growing, as upwardly mobile people in traditionally tea-drinking countries in Asia develop a taste for java."
