15 Foods That May Disappear in Our Lifetimes
With rising temperatures, increases in drought, and infections sweeping lucrative farms and forests, a good chunk of our global food supply is on the brink of extinction. Global warming threatens many of our go-to meal prep staples and comfort foods alike, as climate change swaps the security of steady temps with wacky weather patterns unfit for agriculture.
While we’re no crystal-ball-clad psychics, we dug up some research that suggests these 15 foods may disappear—or drastically subside—during our lifetimes. Unfortunate as it is, it might be time to kick that caffeine and cocoa addiction to the curb. Find out what else you may have to come to terms with living without.
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1 Avocados
Besides smashed on toast or blended into guac, avocado is snuck into everything from hummus to ice cream, lending unexpected eats a verdant hue and mega dose of monounsaturated fats. And with avocado toast on practically every brunch menu possible, we can’t imagine the world—or Sundays—sans the creamy fruit. Much to our dietary dismay, this might be one of the first extinct fruits. Just one pound of avocados require a whopping 72 gallons of water to grow, according to Grub Street, and that spells major trouble for California farms—where over 80 percent of U.S. avocados are grown. “Ninety-eight percent of California is in a drought condition, so the ramifications are much broader than whether someone can get an avocado in New York City,” Ken Melban, the director of issues management for the California Avocado Commission, told Slate.
2 Bananas
The mighty banana that beats the 2 p.m. slump and makes its way into breakfast smoothies is actually known as the commercially-grown Cavendish species and its stricken by a deadly fungal infection that taints the soil. According to Fox News, the soil-tainting Panama disease is currently spreading throughout Africa and Asia, and experts fear that if it strikes South America (the biggest supplier of Cavendish), that may mark the end of America’s favorite fruit.
3 Chocolate
Because the cacao tree is susceptible to pests and fungal diseases such as witch’s broom that wiped out 80 percent of Brazil’s total cocoa output in the early 1990s, scientists fear that these infections can potentially wipe chocolate into extinction due to the plant’s limited genetic variation. Climate change also poses a serious threat to our precious cocoa. “The danger to chocolate comes from an increase in evapotranspiration, especially since the higher temperatures projected for West Africa by 2050 are unlikely to be accompanied by an increase in rainfall, according to business-as-usual carbon dioxide emissions scenarios,” climate.gov states. “In other words, as higher temperatures squeeze more water out of soil and plants, it’s unlikely that rainfall will increase enough to offset the moisture loss.”
4 Potato Chips
According to a study conducted by Bioversity International and the International Rice Research Institute, up to 25 percent of wild potato species are predicted to become extinct by 2055 due to climate change, spelling the demise of our favorite crunchy munchie. Another despairing conclusion: You may not be able to order fries with that.
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Kill me now. 
I have a couple of avocado trees in my backyard, and they get very little water, on purpose, and they do very well.
I used to water them a lot more, but as the drought got worse and water prices went up, I had to cut back on watering. And amazingly, the trees are doing just as well, if not better, than when they had more water.
I think people get used to doing things in the same way, and they don't even consider the fact that they may be able to change the way they grow something.
