If you have been paying attention to recent headlines, you have probably heard that scientists believe chocolate will be extinct in 40 years. This viral rumor started when an article by the Business Insider was published, explaining how cacao plants are decreasing in numbers due to the warmer and dryer environmental conditions.

Luckily, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are experimenting with CRISPR gene editing to see if they can change the plant to make it resistant to fungus and viruses.These tiny tweaks are made to produce a cheaper and more reliable crop. The cacao plant can only grow within a narrow strip of rain-forested land where the temperature and environment stays the same for the entire year.

Two countries near the equator, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, is where over half of the entire world's chocolate comes from. By 2050, the land there will not be suitable for the production of cacao plants.The climate change will reduce the amount of land available for cultivating cacao.

Even though chocolate is at stake, climate changes and other environmental forces will affect the Earth in the future, and it will have a devastating impact on global food production,