It's strange that an article about the potential scarcity of Arabica doesn't once mention the country where most Arabica is grown: Brazil. Not only that, the expectations have been improving because of improved conditions this year: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-21/coffee-dec...

Is it not possible to grow coffee plants using vertical farming? It sound ideas like this => http://cargocollective.com/dellabosca/Vertical-Coffee-Farm are going to need to become a reality in the future if we can't stop climate change, where it can protect the plants from heavy rainfalls and allow farmers to control their growth.

At the same time, demand for coffee is growing rapidly, especially since more traditionally tea-drinking nations are making the switch to coffee.[1] Maybe if coffee prices increase significantly we'll see more milk-tea places opening up and Starbucks incorporating more of its Teavana products at its stores.

[1] http://time.com/3711436/global-coffee-increase/

This page made my laptop scream. It never stopped trying to load something. I run ABP, perhaps that's the "fault?"

I also tried to find a sensible place to point that out to the BBC, but nothing was obviously (to me) the right place.

Isn't there a way to produce synthetic caffeine?

I mean, there's been a shift recently for nicotine and the market for e-cigs, I'm sure we can somehow find a way to do the same for caffeine.

> For one thing, we can expect coffee to become more of a luxury, with prices shooting up by around 25% by 2050 according to Bunn’s calculations

A 25% rise in price over 35 years qualifies as a crisis now?

In accordance with Betteridge's Law of Headlines[1] the answer is no.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

I don't know how people do links and stuff on hacker news