4 Random Plants That Will Disappear in the Next Few Decades

Henner Townlove
ILLUMINATION-Curated
9 min readSep 22, 2020

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Number 1 : Coffee

Photo by Dirk Ribbler on Unsplash

Ninety-nine point nine percent (99.9%) of all species that ever existed on Earth are now extinct. Most of them perished in the five cataclysmic events in our Earth’s history; and according to a recent science poll, 7 out of 10 biologists think we are in the throes of our sixth mass extinction. Even today, there are species of plants that are in danger of being wiped out due to the effects of climate change and other factors. These species are very dependent on a specific type of environmental factors such as temperature, water, and elevation that if there are disruptions in any of these, they will end up developing poorly, or even fail to grow all together. It is in our best interest to prevent these threatened crops from going extinct as some of these are now woven into the fabric of our daily lives.

Earth is warming up

Climate change is a serious issue that needs to be addressed as soon as possible. The image below shows the temperature differences from global five-year averages on three different years. If your country is in the red, it means your country is experiencing more than 4 degrees above the average temperature in that 5-year span.

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Henner Townlove
ILLUMINATION-Curated

Hi, there. I mostly write science stuff✚Optimistic that humanity survives the 6th Mass Extinction✚Love my Toyota✚Environmental Monitoring Technician✚CANADA