You can still buy the Gros Michel banana nowadays. It’s not extinct, but is a rare and expensive speciality, rather than the common type of banana we see on the shelves like it used to be.
If climate change makes growing Arabica coffee commercially non-viable at scale and all the growers move to hardier alternatives, then Arabica will still exist - absolutely - but instead of being the coffee you can drink every day it will also become a rare and expensive speciality, just like the banana.
You can still buy the Gros Michel banana nowadays. It’s not extinct, but is a rare and expensive speciality, rather than the common type of banana we see on the shelves like it used to be.
$37 USD per banana, on this particular site
If climate change makes growing Arabica coffee commercially non-viable at scale and all the growers move to hardier alternatives, then Arabica will still exist - absolutely - but instead of being the coffee you can drink every day it will also become a rare and expensive speciality, just like the banana.
Wow that’s gone up me and a few coworkers ordered a box a couple of years ago and it was like $9 per banana.
They were good, I see the appeal of the variety, but they were not $9 banana good. Let alone $37 banana good.
Damn, didn’t know they still existed, sadly they cost a lot :/
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