Comment on Grim signs the globe is about to run short of food
TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Anyone who is not working to increase their food resilience right now is crazy. This year I’ve turned half of my landlord’s lawn into veggie garden, and if I had a lawn of my own it would have been all of it. I’m also squirreling away whatever I can afford (not much) in long term food stores.
I don’t like to think of myself as a doomer, but I think it’s time to think about these things.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 week ago
They’ll keep Western nations fed for now at the expense of developing nations, which have already been forced into cash crops by GATT. See the Irish potato famine for the capitalist playbook on crop failure.
TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 1 week ago
You’re assuming they can hold it together. I don’t have that much faith in our current crop of global leaders and I don’t think their grip on or understanding of the entire system is all that secure.
I haven’t done or seen any analysis, but I’m at least considering the possibility that we may have a period where zero oil or anything else shows up from overseas. Do we even produce enough of our own to keep food moving, lights on, clean water coming out of the tap?