Reports estimate that wild coffee could go extinct by 2080. Coffee shortages can make it harder to get good coffee and that hurts the livelihoods of millions coffee farmers around the globe. Environmental research groups are concerned about future access to coffee. Advisors for corporate giants like Starbucks and Lavazza express agreement. "We have a cloud hovering over our head. It’s dramatically serious," Mario Cerutti, Green Coffee and Corporate Relations Partner at Lavazza, said at a hospitality conference in Italy in 2015. "Climate change can have a significant adverse effect in the short term," he said. "It's no longer about the future; it's the present." But a warming world and extreme weather, are making it harder to grow coffee in these regions, according to some reports. Temperature and heavy rain have helped a fungus like Coffee Leaf Rust migrate through Central America and into South America, destroying crops. Pests
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