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[SneakyStephan]

More cars, more pollution, less chocolate.

That is... the most depressing thing I've read all day.

If I'd pick one catchphrase to get people to stop polluting it would be this.

Also this is going to wreck the Belgian economy, I better move to germany, sausages won't run out in 2020 will they?

 

[BowieZ]

Better start stockpiling. These fifty cent Hershey's and Milky Way bars are going to go for a fortune on eBay in ten years.

What's the longest one can preserve chocolate for, and how?

 

[Damaniel]

so those chocolate covered almonds are going to have the thinnest coat of chocolate of all time ?

No, they'll just have to start coating them with something else. Like bacon. Or that nasty, fake (hydrogenated) stuff that companies even lower end than Palmer use.

 

[agrajag]

I find it hard to believe that all these multibillion dollar companies that are invested in chocolate will let this happen.

 

[PseudoKirby]

Angus Kennedy.....

 

[mackattk]

Better start stockpiling. These fifty cent Hershey's and Milky Way bars are going to go for a fortune on eBay in ten years.

They haven't been fifty cents for 10 years. They are like 89 cents now, even at grocery stores. I miss the days of 4/$1.00 candy bar sales.

 

[Diprosalic]

So much for that $3000 plan :/

 

[Chance Hale]

And people are calling Bachmann crazy.

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

Don't worry, we're good.

What the hell.

 

[TCRS]

nooo my Green and Black's milk chocolate

 

[Dark Octave]

Don't worry, we're good.

This is blowing my mind.

SMBcloudbush.jpg

 

[Bobby Roberts]

I like the part where the manufacturer in the article requests "another Earth" to meet production demands.

 

[Peterthumpa]

Don't worry, we're good.

I seriously don't understand this.

 

[kerotan_eater]

...really? Seems too crazy to be true.

 

[Grym]

"There will be a chocolate shortage and there isn't a solution to the problem. Seven years is what we think we have left," chocolate taster and expert Angus Kennedy said.

Well...as a chocolate taster (and therefore expert on cocoa production and sustainability), I say there are lots of solutions and there will be plenty of chocolate past 2020.

Who do you believe now?! Huh? WHO?

 

[OfWhiteSkinOnRedLeather]

Don't worry, we're good.

WTF?

 

[CrocMother]

No it's running out and there's a reason for it.

Updated the opening post : Many cocoa farmers are changing into rubber, because the demand for cars and what not is increasing constantly in Asia (China) so it's more profitable to let chocolate die.

No way is it going to ever be true that in every scenario it is more profitable to grow rubber than chocolate.

 

[mackattk]

This is blowing my mind.

SMBcloudbush.jpg

.

Spoiler

look at the overall size of the chocolate bar as the GIF loops...

 

[Cousteau]

What Im getting from this is there is only one way to rectify this:

Hershey Highway

 

[Brera]

So the Chinese are to blame...AGAIN!

 

[Machine]

Carob to the rescue.

 

[jmdajr]

LIES

 

[Peterthumpa]

.

Spoiler

look at the overall size of the chocolate bar as the GIF loops...

The number of chocolate pieces is the same after the cut.

 

[Borgnine]

We must begin to fund a mission to Chocolate Earth. Possibly some initial probes to sample the coca powder deserts for signs of deliciousness.

 

[Reversed]

So, is there a replacement for that choco flavor? Like, soy chocolate?

 

[Akuun]

Why do the Chinese need so much rubber?

 

[140.85]

We need another Earth basically if we carry on at this rate.

HAHA. Imagine in the future - a chocolate planet just to support our habit.

 

[Aiii]

For a second I doubted that Cacao came from plants and that it was a fossil fuel instead.

We won't run out, Mars, Milka, etc. will find a way to plant more plants. It's all good.

 

[Twio]

Fuck it I'm going to Costco and buying hundreds of chocolate bars in bulk.

I just can't quit chocolate. I refuse to believe this.

 

[Fornaximus]

I find this hard to believe. Gluttony finds a way.

 

[Jazzy Network]

Just make more cocoa. Duh.

 

[ICKE]

But this is not exactly surprising given how farmers in African nations prefer rubber over cocoa. It's not just chocolate, our entire ecosystem is being completely decimated so that emerging powerhouses such as China can enjoy having two cars in every household.

I'm going to buy chocolate regardless of how much it costs though. Leonidas fo'life.

 

[dankir]

I read that the large Chocolate companies sequenced out the entire DNA code of cocoa beans ( or whatever its called to record the DNA structure ) in preparation for this type of event.

 

[BroDudeGuy]

Don't worry, we're good.

WTF. This is sorcery.

 

[Leatherface]

 

[Kittygirl]

Our love for chocolate is too great. We will find another way to make it.

Shudders, as she remembers the hideousness of carob from the '80's.

 

[J_Lee]

So right now we are running out and need
Cocoa Trees
and
Helium
In that order.

 

[CrocMother]

Fuck it I'm going to Costco and buying hundreds of chocolate bars in bulk.

I just can't quit chocolate. I refuse to believe this.

Obama's takin' away our chocolates!

Recommendation for History nerds: History of Chocolate by Michael and Sophie Coe

Michael Coe is like the number 1 G masta regarding the Mayans, who originally processed the cacao bean as a bitter drink used in religious ceremonies. Like bananas in Hawaii its consumption was restricted to the upper class upon penalty of death. At one time there were only a handful of "chocolatiers" in Europe who knew the complex process of making the drink, and only much later was it made into a solid form.

 

[protonion]

WW3 will halve the population by then.

Spoiler

hopefully

 

[brian577]

So the Chinese are to blame...AGAIN!

If we ever needed an excuse to go to war...

 

[Jimnymebob]

I seriously don't understand this.

It's basically slicing a tiny strip off the length of the chocolate.
I'm guessing from the diagonal and the bottom of the top left square.

 

[MacGurcules]

Carob to the rescue.

Fuck you, sir.

 

[Mike Works]

Children of Men suddenly makes so much sense.

 

[Serandur]

Don't worry, we're good.

I will try this... first in secret, then on my friends.

 

[diffusionx]

Thanks Obama.

 

[Bulbo Urethral Baggins]

If there has ever been a reason for all of civilization to unite for one cause, this is it.

 

[Heel]

This thread is a lie. I'll be bumping it in 7 years and holding you accountable.

 

[lil smoke]

uh Candy Swap anyone?

 

[Dorrin]

Sounds like a version of hell to me.

 

[Captain Tuttle]

C'mon corporations, genetically modify that shit