Comment by deadmetheny

This is clickbait. Bananas as a species are doing just fine, it's the Cavendish cultivar that is in danger due to being a monoculture, just like the Gros Michel was when most of its groves got wiped out. Some other SE Asian banana will just end up taking its place if and when the Cavendish gets taken out as a result of monoculture, and quite frankly many of those varieties are vastly superior to the Cavendish anyway.