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January, 2013

A Coffee Drought?

A humorous take on the possibility of a future coffee drought.
This paragraph from The Awl on the possibility of a coffee drought wins the day:
Can you imagine? Think about how unpleasant people are already, with coffee. Think about how unpleasant people are about coffee. And I'm not even talking about your garden-variety dickheads who debate the merits of pour-over brew versus the Estonian flatiron reverse-osmosis method, which is probably a thing even though I just made it up. I'm talking about the people who are all, "I can't start the day without coffee," as if the rest of us aren't just as tired and irritable without feeling the apparently deep-seated need to broadcast just how dependent we are on hot water dripped through crushed beans to help us contend with the arduous tasks of getting to work and turning on a computer. These are the people we're going to have to club to death first during our grim, coffeeless future, which the New Scientist> (registration required) sees as coming "by 2080." Oh, wait, 65 years? We'll all be long dead by then. Never mind.
January 9, 2013
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