Your daily cup of coffee could get more expensive because of climate change
Coffee lovers and café dwellers are likely to see the price of a cup of joe increase soon, experts warn.
Coffee lovers and café dwellers are likely to see the price of a cup of joe increase soon, experts warn.
The price of arabica coffee beans, the high-quality beans found in most restaurants and shops, spiked this month, recently jumping to $3.50 a pound.
That’s up 70% this year, which has brought the highest prices for the crop since 1977.
A pile of coffee beans during harvest at a plantation in Minas Gerais state near Guaxupe, Brazil, on June 13, 2016. Patricia Monteiro / Bloomberg via Getty Images fileAdjusted for inflation, $3.50 would be about $0.66 in 1977. Prices increased back then because a frost killed more than a billion coffee bean trees.
And today, experts say, climate change is to blame.
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