Comment on Chris Martenson on VivaBarnes predicted fertilizer shortage 2 weeks ago. WSJ confirmed it today
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
Prices will go up if we're lucky.
If we aren't lucky there just won't be food.
I grabbed a significant supply of non-perishable food late last year because I predicted a cold winter.
It's been bad, but not cataclysmically -- yet. Price controls will probably be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Without bravery from people in charge, they're coming.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Fuck, I haven't had to worried about this kind of madness in decades. If 2022 and 23's harvests fail, you will see the result with a 6 months lag to supermarkets, not immediately. Futures prices should also predict in advance when this happens.
The ones to starve first will be the poor people in Africa/SA/Asia, who can't afford to suddenly pay 4-10x for food. There will be a pretty big famine if the supply doesn't come back.
I bought around 50 kilos of potatoes from a farmer recently just coincidentally. I don't expect things will get so bad in Europe, but I was about to buy rice for long term storage also.
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
This is one of the things that blows me away: The people who are driving this claim to be champions of the poor, but everything almost seems calibrated specifically to harm the poor.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
A lot of the climate people specifically believe "humans are a cancer on earth". Now you begin to understand why they behave like this.
They want population control because we are cockroaches according to them.
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
Yes, then they go "Oh! You guys aren't breeding as much? We'd better import a bunch of people from low carbon use jurisdictions to the first world!" because if they had any logic they wouldn't have the views they have!