To be boring as all hell and make a straight response to a joke remark – the attribute of “being desirable to humans” is a remarkably viable survival strategy for a vast number of plants and animals, coffee included.
It’s been propagated far beyond it’s native habitat and is now deliberately cultivated, and even protected from predators by humans, entirely on the basis of its taste and its chemistry appealing to us. It is vastly more likely that some part of the coffea lineage survives the current climate crisis as a result of that desirability, for all that much of the ‘native’ stock and wild strains are very much at risk.
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To be boring as all hell and make a straight response to a joke remark – the attribute of “being desirable to humans” is a remarkably viable survival strategy for a vast number of plants and animals, coffee included.
It’s been propagated far beyond it’s native habitat and is now deliberately cultivated, and even protected from predators by humans, entirely on the basis of its taste and its chemistry appealing to us. It is vastly more likely that some part of the coffea lineage survives the current climate crisis as a result of that desirability, for all that much of the ‘native’ stock and wild strains are very much at risk.