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I guess the bananocalypse will eventually come some day. But it has been predicted to come for decades already.

2005: The Cavendish, the version of the banana that rests on top of American breakfast cereals, is "on a crash course toward extinction."

2010: a new strain of the Panama disease, that the Cavendish banana is not resistant to, sprung up in 1992 and threatens the world’s most popular banana once again

2016: Why bananas as we know them might go extinct

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/13/business/media/no-serious...

https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/06/commercial-...

https://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/22/africa/banana-panama-dise...

parent sampo 3 years ago

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