Chocolate May Be Extinct By 2050

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    • Publish Date: Jan 3 2018 1:38PM
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    • Updated Date: Jan 3 2018 1:54PM
Chocolate May Be Extinct By 2050

When we think 'guilty pleasures', the first thing to pop-up in most of our minds is chocolate. Chocolate is universally loved and cherished. However, a recent study states that chocolate might actually go extinct and yes, in this very lifetime! According to a new study, the Cacao plant is slated to disappear as early as 2050 thanks to warmer temperatures and more arid weather conditions.

What are the scientists saying?
Scientists have already teamed up with a leading chocolate company to help save the plant. Researchers are exploring the possibility of using a gene-editing technology called CRISPR to make crops that survive the new weather challenges. They are working towards creating a more resistant version of cacao plants that will survive, and thrive in the dryer, warmer climates. Cacao plants can only grow within a narrow strip of rainforested land roughly 20 degrees north and south of the equator, where temperature, rain, and humidity all stay relatively constant throughout the year. Over half of the world's chocolate now comes from just two countries in West Africa, Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana. However, these areas won't be suitable by 2050 due to rising temperatures and it will push today's chocolate-growing regions more than 1,000 feet uphill into mountainous terrain, much of which is currently preserved for wildlife, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
 

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D. Archanaa Bethel Mat Hr Sec School

This is something really shocking.Almost all people in the world like chocolates.I cannot imagine a world without chocolate.I read that dark chocolate is also healthiest one we can eat. Let''s start to eat less no of chocolates to save more chocolates for future India and the future world.And let''s pray god to make chocolates everlasting and it will surely happen.Prayer along with hard work brings victory.

Ishita Singh MOUNT CARMEL SCHOOL(DWARKA)

Not only chocolate but the survival of the human race is at the edge of extinction. The way we are damaging the environment the end is near. We all should do everything that we can do in order to save earth.

Himanshi Dhawan Saffron Public School

This is excruciatingly depressing for all chocolate lovers. One can''t even imagine a world without chocolate. Let''s hope for the best now!

anushka sharma jain bharati mrigavati vidyalaya

Oh my God I can''t imagine this terrible situation of world by this unfavorable weather its all because of man kind only it''s really surprising that there will also come a time when we will not get �� chocolates and have to live without it. I don''t want to imagine that time but really it''s not good . Will pray that all human will start loving this nature and stop harming it otherwise we will have to face those terrible and even more disastrous results .

Bhumika Arora Hansraj Model School

SHOCKING!! Its high time for everything now. This should wake us all. Our greed is destroying everything, especially our favourites. Can''t imagine the life of 2050''s. Either to stop or to start replicating needful things.

janvi MOUNT CARMEL SCH CHD-SEC-47

OMG..A WORLD WITHOUT CHOCOLATES!! No Chocolates, no animals, no tress. What life it woild be in 2050... Just cannot imagine

Sreya Bheemesh KENSRI ACDEMY OF EXCELLENCEMARIANAP

No!!! We have to, atleast now, try to realise what blunders we are doing..... By destroying nature, we are destroying many essential things....... . . Like chocolate!

Aashish Jiwani PEARSON SCHOOL KOMPALLY SCHOOL

It is just a fake news. Do not worry. Such news was proved fake earlier. They just want you to cry. There is nothing like that. So do not worry. Chocolates will be everlasting :-):-):-)

Garv Sanjeev Rana RUKMINI DEVI PUB. SCHOOL(PITAMPURA)

No I don''t want to leave eating chocolates and I cannot imagine placing chocolates with dinosaurs.

Garv Sanjeev Rana RUKMINI DEVI PUB. SCHOOL(PITAMPURA)

No I don''t want to leave eating chocolates and I cannot imagine placing chocolates with dinosaurs.

Roma Ramcoumar Bethel Mat Hr Sec School

My God this is the worst thing that could happen . I cant think a life without chocolates . They are a part and parcel of my life .I am breaking down currently . They are my mind relaxing buddies . Yeah Archanaa indeed you are right . Lets all put our prayers to bring chocolates back to lofe . THe feeling you will experience is the most pleasurable feeling .

Kanan Wadhwa J.B.MRIGAVTI VIDYALAYA(ALIPUR G.T.K

A world without chocolates can''t be imagined. Almost everyone likes eating chocolate. Extinction of chocolate and that also because of the human''s cruel nature towards the environment....OMG!!. we are destroying everything one after another. what will happen to the new generations if we go on being like this. It is really a great matter of concern. we must try all our efforts to save our mother earth.

Ujjwal Goel RUKMINI DEVI PUB. SCHOOL(PITAMPURA)

just like oxygen, water CHOCOLATE is a vital part of the life hope the scientists could genetically modify the plant

Ujjwal Goel RUKMINI DEVI PUB. SCHOOL(PITAMPURA)

just like oxygen, water CHOCOLATE is a vital part of the life hope the scientists could genetically modify the plant

ANTRA SHARMA NAVY CHILDREN SCHOOL, CHANAKYAPURI

A world without chocolate is like a bird without wings, I just hope is news turns into a myth and chocolates continue to exist��

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