Coffee in crisis: the next worldwide shortage?

I am capable of murder in the morning if I don't get my java wake up call. Just a warning.

NOOOOO!! What am I gonna do for FINALS when it runs out...?!?! Thats the only time I need coffee...too many allnighters.

Thank goodness I don't like coffee. :)

Good lord help us all.

Wow, this better not affect my daily dose of Cuban coffee or someone's gonna pay...

nooooo.

my productivity is gonna drop to zero before 2pm - it's the only way I can wake up before early afternoon...!

STARBUCKS IS LOOSIN ITS MIND RIGHT ABOUT NOW!!!

Time to buy US grown coffee..Yes US COFFEE, and the only kind I buy and roast myself

a world without coffee is a world i don't want to be part of. i'm not sure i could survive.

Bet none of us thought we'd be adding "Peak Bean" to the list of worldwide crises...

Just one man's opinion...

We can create growith in the market by encouraging farmers. I just can't stop thinking about the Starbucks lawsuit... However, I can see why non-profits like Oxfam pushed just a little too hard. Corporate responsibility is something we've been lacking, and many companies, including Starbucks, are losing business because of it.

How in god's name am I expected to function without coffee.

It is the reason I get up in the morning!!

I'll just drink more mushroom coffee then.

This is bad, very bad.

Never fear, coffee fiends! I'm going to start my own illegal coffee crop... and secretly smuggle it to you with a cloned, fake UPS truck. It can't fail, right?

ref: http://current.com/items/89606946/2_118_pounds_of_marijuana_seized_from_cloned_u...

I am in Colombia where the coffee flows like water... water pushed through a filter of cafe.

I'm not a fan of drinking coffee, but the smell is gorgeous. I love to wake up in the morning to the strong smell of coffee! Its like my alarm clock, i smell it, i know its time to get up!!! I'm not sure it is a crisis however - now if there was a shortage on tea - the world would stop!!!!

This doesn't necessarily mean there will be a shortage. Coffee trees have cycles of fast and slow growths. Brazil is just having a lull but coffee is still thriving in other countries.
Hope so anyway! I couldn't live without my eleven o clock kick.

Just like tea, red wine, chocolate and sugar, coffee is not a luxury; it is a necessity!

"Coffee shortage? Muy Bien!!!! Plenty of countries can find ways of alternatives in drinking coffee such as tea from rose, green tea and while trees of coffee are young, we can make new sources from other countries who have coffee plants!!!"-JB

We cry when our precious conveniences dwindle?!!? How naive are people who don't know that "natural resources + over-population + greed = nothing lasts forever"?!!? Shortages, high prices and possession battles are inevitable. We have passed (by far) the point of a sustainable planet. So, how angry can we be when Earth can no longer give us what we want?!!?

Please, I am barely dealing with this whole economy issue as is, DON'T tell me I have to do it without COFFEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Really? The lack of a majority of coffee being fair trade has not managed to keep the prices down? That is the real surprise here.

Oh hell, if coffee is in crisis we have a serious problem.

Politicians are full of shit and that is what fertilizer is, so why not send washington to Brazil.

Commodities are what's the problem, any commodity needs too be regulated. Oil has finally come down on price because of Obama's threat of taxing windfall profits throughout his campaign. I think you will find things are already changing with the imminent swearing in. Commodity traders beware!

good, coffee is pointless aside from caffeine, which is a needless unhealthy crutch anyways. I guess all the coffee addicts will have to fall back on their mountain dew addiction

The biggest factor ....., but the high price in fertilizer.

Guess what is used to make fertilizer........OIL.

No coffee? Say it ain't so Jo! It seems we go through a coffee crisis every 5 years or so. How high can Starbucks go? Any bets?

The price is wrong, bitch.

To be honest, looking at how much the coffee shops charge for a cup of joe, they can afford to take the hit...I mean, 3 quid a cup, it costs them what, 5/6p? So starbucks will make a bit less, so what?

NO! NO! NO! NO!

How am i going to function mon-fri?

Imagine the wider effects of a coffee shortage.

People would get less done at work and economies would come to a stand still. A coffee-free world would not be a nice place to live.

I need my coffee so if I have to pay more for it I'll do it. *grumbles* What can I say? I'm a slave to my morning cup of coffee.

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Awe hell no!

maybe I should start growing some and selling it for top dollar

I'm gonna start hoarding now.

not gonna lie idk wut i wud do w.o coffee!!!