The ethics of coffee have been debated over time and time again. However, the main discussion should be about how environmentally unfriendly growing coffee really is. People in the coffee market are now starting to realize how climate change is going to affect their coffee, as well as looking at how coffee farming can be disruptive. Brie Mazurek from Civil Eats talks about the solutions to sustainable coffee. One solution that they are looking towards is called shade grown. This suggests that the coffee was grown using agroforestry techniques that doesn’t disrupt the biodiversity of the environment around them.Shade grown uses the cash crops and subsistence farming and puts the two together. Grounds for Change which is an organization dedicated to fair trade coffee, and sustainable practices writes about how this type of permaculture can help end the hunger months that so many farmers have to deal with after they harvest the coffee because they simply don’t get enough money to be able to live. Mazurek quotes Colby Barr who is the own of the Verve Coffee Roasters, and he believes that coffee that is economically fair will also be sustainable. He states; “To have longevity, you need to have a relationship, and to have a relationship, you have to pay farmers well,” How could we possibly value the land to the point where we are growing sustainable if we can’t even respect the people who grow it with a living wage? I agree with Barr here because if we help end this systematic oppression that comes with cash crops then we can also work with creating a healthier type of coffee.