World to officially run out of chocolate on October 2, 2020

[:eek:]

http://www.dnaindia.com/world/18998...cially-run-out-of-chocolate-on-october-2-2020

 

[gohei_]

 

[CGHulk]

We can grow them hydroponically, someone needs to get off their ass and make this happen!!

 

[Silvermoth]

Well, that's the day I'll be offing myself then

 

[Lord]

Way before it runs out it will start to cost much more

 

[AnneFan]

No more chocket? This can't be true.

Get Willy Wonka onto the case.

 

[JewishHobbit]

Hey, that might help this weight problem so many of us have. Now if only we could stop growing Big Macs.

 

[CapedCrusader14]

I'm allergic to chocolate, so meh.

 

[Nathan]

 

[webhead9707]

Psh, and people said we wouldn't know when the apocalypse would happen til it got here.

 

[Duke]

This is terrible news to wake up to.

 

[Teelie]

Every time I see something posted with a very specific date like this about the end/coming of something I get skeptical of its accuracy. It's one thing to be vague and open to interpetation (ie; the end is coming in 20xx) but this is so very specific it makes me wonder how they know it that well.

I'm guessing we'll still have chocolate well into the 22nd century and this kind of claim is just selling a story. 2.3 globes to keep having chocolate? Are the existing plants just going to go extinct? And why has no other news source picked up on this? Is the chocolate industry buying their silence?

Somehow I think hoax or crackpot theory are more likely reasons.

 

[Nathan]

It's so crazy, that I wouldn't be surprised if it's true. Out of all the things to run out of, freaking chocolate is the first thing to go. What would actually happen if we would really run out of chocolate?

 

[NickNitro]

Chocolate supply on the decline, bacon supply on the decline......I'm not bringing a child into this train wreck of a world....

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Breogan]

1. "Kennedy insisted that the problem is that much of the space that was used for cocoa plantations is no longer there, because the farms are being chopped down and turned into rubber plantations as they get a better yield."
2. "...we need another Earth if we carry on at this rate,"

Is this supposed rate of decline he uses to forecast into the future something permanent though?
Is the problem they can never go back to producing cocoa once they've switched to rubber?
Because if it's not, when chocolate becomes more expensive and thus profitable (yield-wise) than rubber plantations will just go back to cocoa, ie bring the price down.
IE changing the current rate of cocoa decline.

 

[Teelie]

There is that too. The presumption that cocoa will stop being produced in favor of rubber. Once you hit a certain point chocolate becomes more valuable to farm and rubber less so. There will reach an equilibrium of chocolate to rubber trees where it is balanced out.

And somehow that sounds kinky when you use chocolate and rubber in conjunction.

 

[Shikamaru]

Chocolate supply on the decline, bacon supply on the decline......I'm not bringing a child into this train wreck of a world....

Bacon too?

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Bacon too?

What about the chocolate covered bacon?!

 

[Senator Pleasury]

 

[Airwings]

Time for a new era, time for CINNELATTE!!! t:

 

[Pink Ranger]

There is that too. The presumption that cocoa will stop being produced in favor of rubber. Once you hit a certain point chocolate becomes more valuable to farm and rubber less so. There will reach an equilibrium of chocolate to rubber trees where it is balanced out.

And somehow that sounds kinky when you use chocolate and rubber in conjunction.

That's most sexual post about demand curve theory that I've ever read.


Actually, third most.

 

[Schlosser85]

 

[Nathan]

Time to terraform Mars and plant Cocoa Trees all over that *****.

 

[Green Goblin]

seriously!?