The End of the World as We know it

Read an article in a magazine yesterday that has got me a little worried about the fate of the world. It listed over fifty things that, if things continue the way they are, we will run out of by 2050. Now this isn't a cute and fluffy animal list, but more of an inanimate but important list with things like helium on it. The list is pretty impressive and if I can ever find it online I will post it for you guys. However, the most frightening things that it listed as being threatened are Chocolate and Coffee.

According to experts, climate change (Whether you believe in Global Warming or whether or not People are responsible for GW, you can't argue that the climate is changing.) is threatening the areas where coffee and cocoa beans grow. Changes in temperature and rainfall combined with the inherent difficulties of cultivating these precious commodities is making it more and more difficult to grow them. Since both (cocoa plants especially) require some very specific conditions to thrive, it is entirely possible that we might face severe shortages if not complete loss in a fairly short period of time.

God, can you imagine a world without coffee or chocolate? A world where two of the most potent balms for man's belligerent nature don't exist? Being extremely creative and a little demented, I can and believe me when I say its not a very pretty picture. So many people depend on these miracle products to keep their tempers under control and to boost their morale when otherwise they'd simply find a dark closet and hide.

So come on folks, help save the world. Recycle, reuse, reheat...wait no forget the last one. If we don't do something now, the world isn't going to be a very pretty place in 30 or 40 years. I mean, do you want to live in a world where 80% of the people are going through DeeTees?