It’s easy to ignore the United Nations and World Bank pontificators as Über-leftists and global climate change fanatics. However, of value to us ordinary peeps, is a recognition that U.N and WB outlooks permeate the World Economic Forum and Davos groups.
The multinational corporations and quasi-governmental entities in/around the World Economic Forum (WEF) are the people who call themselves “elites” and shape global policy. As a result, when the U.N. and Word Bank start talking about widespread global famine as a result of energy policy impacts to the farming industry, specifically natural gas costs and fertilizer resulting in lower crop yields, it is worth paying attention.
We have already discussed the U.S. impact from higher fertilizer costs HERE. As a nation we are blessed and fortunate to be living on land that is naturally healthy and fertile enough to grow food in abundance. However, if our crop yields drop our export ability diminishes. The world relies on the U.S. as a food basket. You might have recently heard about foreign countries buying up U.S. farmland? Well….
In this outline from the Wall Street Journal, they note those increased costs mean less crops in all continents especially the third world regions. That can be catastrophic for nations that already have food insecurity issues.
(Via Wall Street Journal) Christina Ribeiro do Valle, who comes from a long line of coffee growers in Brazil, is this year paying three times what she paid last year for the fertilizer she needs. Coupled with a recent drought that hit her crop hard, it means Ms. do Valle, 75, will produce a fraction of her Ribeiro do Valle brand of coffee, some of which is exported.
There is also a shortage of fertilizer. “This year, you pay, then put your name on a waiting list, and the supplier delivers it when he has it,” she said.
[…] Farmers in the U.S. are also feeling the pinch, with some shifting their planting plans. But the impact is expected to be worse in developing countries where smallholders have limited access to bank loans and can’t pay up front for expensive fertilizer.
Fertilizer demand in sub-Saharan Africa could fall 30% in 2022, according to the International Fertilizer Development Center, a global nonprofit organization. That would translate to 30 million metric tons less food produced, which the center says is equivalent to the food needs of 100 million people.
“Lower fertilizer use will inevitably weigh on food production and quality, affecting food availability, rural incomes and the livelihoods of the poor,” said Josef Schmidhuber, deputy director of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s trade and markets division.
As the pandemic enters year three, more households are having to cut down on the quantity and quality of food they consume, the World Bank said in a note last month, noting that high fertilizer prices were adding to costs. Around 2.4 billion people lacked access to adequate food in 2020, up 320 million from the year before, it said. Inflation rose in about 80% of emerging-market economies last year, with roughly a third seeing double-digit food inflation, according to the World Bank.
Diammonium phosphate, or DAP, a commonly used phosphate fertilizer, cost $745 per metric ton in December—more than double its 2020 average price. December prices for Eastern European urea, a widely exported nitrogen fertilizer, were nearly four times the 2020 average.
[…] Tony Will, chief executive of CF Industries Holdings Inc., a leading nitrogen fertilizer manufacturer based in Deerfield, Ill., said he expected lower fertilization levels this year to result in reduced agricultural yields. The company has only reopened one of the two U.K. plants it closed in September, citing high natural-gas prices and low availability of truck drivers. Plants in North America, where gas prices are lower, are running at maximum capacity, Mr. Will said.
Industry experts say European production is likely to be constrained as long as natural-gas prices remain high there, with shortages in parts of the developing world amplified by trade restrictions in other major fertilizer exporters. (read more)
Leftism has consequences. Chase the surfacing issue back to its origin, and you will find the climate change agenda at the heart of changes in energy policy. The changes in energy policy, as noted above, have consequences like higher prices. Those higher prices for natural gas, oil, fuel, etc mean higher prices for fertilizer… which leads to less food.
Chasing the climate change agenda actually kills people. Then again, from the perspective of the climate change cult, less people are not a bad thing.
As we have shared…. “The absence of food will most certainly change things.”
Now does the war on carbon based fuels start to illuminate why there will be food shortages?
A global Holodomor anyone?
Please, no noticing is allowed.
Indeed. Pocahontas tweeted that the higher prices are because of the huge greedy corporations (oil and gas companies). They raised their prices because they want to make more profit. And the leftist idiots totally believe her.
We can’t have anyone noticing that inflation is rampant due to government policies!
I agree with pocahontas. Its the greedy fascist corporations – the same ones that own her and congress. The same ones that congress protects in return.
She needs to look in the mirror and see the hypocrisy..
She can’t…every mirror she looks in shatters.
Either that or as befits her soul she sees no reflection And yes I know that’s unkind. But I’ve never ignored a truth and I’ve learned to recognize evil when I see it.
smart messaging by them. the hive will need an injected thought to deliver when this topic button is pushed.
An very unfortunate yet acceptable result in the glory of the NWO.
World Economic Fascism
What if we scoop the poop near the railroad tracks in LA where they steal all the train cargo and replace the stolen cargo with poop? Then it is an easy train ride out to Farmville, where it can be sprinkled on organic farmland?
Maranatha
Come Lord Jesus!
Yes it’s all coming true
It’s widely accepted that fossil fuels and the industrial revolution allowed the earth’s population to explode thanks to increased food production. It stands to reason that eliminating fossil fuels and deindustrializing would have the reverse effect.
famous tyrant quotes:
“learn to code”
-Biden
I believe that statement was first directed at coal miners who were losing their jobs over the OBiden “globull warming” green energy scam. The first code they/we learned was MAGA. The latest code is FJB.
Will my commute get shorter?
H/T Bill Burr.
Be cool to get a recipe thread started focused on local sourcing.
Local eggs, seasonal produce and local meat options (buying half a cow, deer, etc)
We can turn one room in the house into a salami room. Buy half a cow, grind the meat, add sugar and culture and away we go!
That way when the power goes down, you don’t have to worry about spoilage.
That is a serious suggestion that needs to be considered by many of us. Beef jerky would be another option. Smoked salmon anyone?
Join gab…all kinds of info like that. And many good people
Do these elites actually believe they will survive this?
They always do. And they keep their Praetorian Guard well fed.
Oh yes not just survive, they will prosper
yes. and there is little evidence to the contrary.
“As flies to wanton boys are we to th’ gods, They kill us for their sport.”
Shakespeare, King Lear
Yes they do. They believe we’ve reached the end of history.
Another manufactured crisis
Definitely some statuary in need of toppling.
God has a special place in hell for the people who put this up, keep this up, and agree with the statement.
Be fruitful and multiply didn’t end when the elistists made up a number of how many people this planet could hold.
Need to add a couple or three zeros to that.
There’s a cure for this.
All part of the plan – kill the first world countries with the jab and kill the third world countries via starvation.
Hence, I have been saying STOCKPILING, like 1000 buerocrats at the bottom of the ocean, is ONLY a good first step.
Next, you need to move towards self-sufficiency, which is growing your own.
Aquaponics raises fish and fresh produce, and the fish SUPPLY THE FERTILISER.
And, no transport costs, and it can be ‘sized’ to your available space, from a tabletop or window unit, an apartment balcony, small or large yard, and is scalable so you can start small and grow.
Once established, requires a small amount of energy, to run pumps, and fishfood (hint: wild fish like the talapai or trout you will be raising, live off BUGS; think bug zapper hung over fish tank) and your 1 hr or so/day of maintaining the system.
We just use farm manure.
I was talking to a guy who owns a nearby dairy farm with about 2,000 cows.
He said one of his biggest concerns is how to dispose of all the manure.
He should bag it and sell it!
A local horse ranch does that. They turn it into dirt for a couple years and then sell it in large bags. Great fertilizer.
Another great fertilizer is fish guts. If you fish, or know of someone who does a lot of fishing, or know of a fish cleaning station, ask for their throw-aways. Fish guts make great fertilizer.
But I hate eating fish…
I have worn castings, cow manure, and mushroom compost to add to my square foot garden soil, peat moss and vermiculite for this year and probably all of next year.
Dutchman, the process doesn’t work that way. I’m curious if you know of an instance where a process works that way and is scalable…
Has anyone used deer poop for home garden fertilizer? We have a herd of deer in our yard and lots and lots of poop!
Oh great. Bad to worse.
They’re “predicting”.
“predicting”= Making sure it will happen.
And Biden will be right there, ready to sign off on whatever they hand over to him.
There are many millions of incredible Americans that don’t deserve this insanity but it shouldn’t be a surprise given the many years that millions of other Americans ignored or enabled the widespread corruption in gov’t and industry; are willing to destroy a healthy economy over a climate theory of doom; elected the corrupt, deceitful politicians that were selling out their country and their voters for personal gain; were easily duped by the lying divisive media; are grateful to the wealthy evil billionaire ogres that are funding the rogue lawless A/G’s or the imperious Big Tech slobs censoring free debate and on and on.
The fight is definitely not over but it feels like it’s getting close to judgement day. It is not unreasonable to suggest that all of this insanity is due to a stolen corrupt election. The widespread corruption is so deep, it might be unstoppable and eventually destroy the USA from within.
Never underestimate humanity’s ability to self destruct but if the majority of America wakes up and joins the fight that millions of Americans are already engaged in; anything is possible.
Consider key features of a second republic.
So the filthy rotten parasitic scum-sucking globalist “let them eat stale cake” elitist bastards think they can just decide to starve millions with impunity?
Michael Obama is trying her darndest to look like Marie Antoinette in that photo… so we can take that to its historically accurate ending…
Start assembling the guillotines….
I guarantee you that there will much more inventive punishments dreamed up and implemented.
I doubt they have the capacity to fully understand the hell they are about to unleash.
Hubris and tragedy abound.
Punishments must be public. So that future wannabe tyrants dare not try this again .
Same is it ever was my friend.
Nothing new under the sun. What once was old, is new again.
Those dynamics will not change until the lord himself returns to this Earth. You can count on that.
Laughing… I thought he was a drag queen. Didn’t stop to think about it.
But… I’m not far off😉
Just superimposing her face on the character from The Hunger Games. Perfect!
No problem! Just send more money to the UN and the World Bank. The United States can go first.
And of course the refugees must go somewhere…..right? What about the children
WELL HOW THE HELL AM I GOING TO GET MY PLANT-MEAT, KLAUS?!? HUH?!?
Bugs, my friend. You will learn to love bug-meat
Seems the Georgia Guidestones are coming to fruition……
And is it a coincidence that one of the leading WEF Davos depopulation people, Bill Gates, is now the largest private owner of farmland in the US?
Bill Gates is about to change the way Amerıca farms
The co-founder of Microsoft and his wife make an auspicious debut on the 2020 LAND REPORT 100, as America’s largest private farmland owners.
https://www.thebullvine.com/news/bill-gates-is-about-to-change-the-way-america-farms/
……All told, the 2017 acquisition of AgCoA and the 2018 acquisition of the 100 Circles tract in the Horse Heaven Hills of Eastern Washington total an investment in farmland assets of more than $690 million. Janiec’s sources said some of the AgCoA assets were quickly sold off, but according to the Land Report 100 Research Team, an estimated 242,000 acres of farmland remained.
Yet farmland assets aren’t the sole component of the Gateses’ landholdings. In 2017, Cascade Investment bought a “significant stake” in 24,800 acres of transitional land on the western edge of Phoenix, the most populous city in Arizona and the 10th largest metropolitan area in the country. The acreage sits off Interstate 10, and it is poised to be accessible by Interstate 11, a proposed highway that would traverse 5 miles of the 40-square-mile holding. At buildout, the Belmont development will create a brand-new metropolis, one similar in size to the Phoenix suburb of Tempe, home to Arizona State University and almost 200,000 residents. According to The Arizona Republic, Belmont is projected to include up to 80,000 homes; 3,800 acres of industrial, office, and retail space; 3,400 acres of open space; and 470 acres for public schools.
Cascade Investment doubled down on Phoenix transitional land two years later when it made a second major investment by acquiring more than 2,800 acres known as Spurlock Ranch in Buckeye for $25 million.
And where will the water come from to support this grand plan in the desert?
242,000 acres is but a drop in the bucket. There are 900 million acres of farm land. The big concern is that the total farmland in the USA is dropping, down about 50 million acres in 20 years. That is not as bad as it sounds. When land is allowed to go fallow or taken out of production it is usually the least productive land.
A lot of Montana ranches were bought up by elites years ago, starting with Ted Turner. A lot of them were used for company retreats. But the effect is, less cows and beef on the market.
AZ? Where is the water going to come from?
Not just land, but fertilizer and seed production!
I had an interesting conversation with a random guy last year after we got to talking about food production. I mentioned that the Netherlands produces amazing amounts of food on very little land, using a high tech greenhouse system.
I think they incorporate some of the aquaponic principles.
This guy was very excited about doing similar things here, but he specifically mentioned that Bill Gates had already invested a ton of money into acquiring properties to grow food in the indoor greenhouse warehouses.
Which is fine, but if the electricity goes out, you have a very stinky warehouse very quickly.
You would need a non-stop, reliable energy source. Thorium nuclear reactor, or whatever it was Tesla found that produces limitless energy, wouldn’t you?
Anyways, here we go:
1) Grow the food in secure, corporate owned greenhouses, mostly using robots
2) Buy up all the farmland and put it all under conservation easements to “save the planet ” => =>
3) Control the food supply, add digital ID and social credit score/mark of the Beast to purchase food control the world, starve the dissidents at will.
It truly freaks me out when people who truly hate Americans (Gates and China) start buying up our source of sustenance. It’s going to get very scary very fast!
I was recently bowled over to read an article in the South African Mail & Guardian – they regularly push the alarmist narrative – describing the surge in agricultural production in a country that has been told to expect increasing droughts and food shortages:
“the seasons of 2019-20 and 2020-21 were the first time in history where South Africa’s maize yields have surpassed 15 million tonnes in two successive seasons”
“The only periods in recent memory that had three successive years of conducive weather conditions and a large crop harvest were in the 2007-08, 2008-09, and 2009-10 production seasons.”
“We are in an unusual period. South Africa has not had three consecutive seasons of above-average rainfall in a long time. The current 2021-22 rainy season follows 2020-21 and 2019-20, which had above-normal rainfall . . .”
Perhaps it is time that those working at the headoffices of the UN in New York and World Bank in Washington step out of their plush airconditioned offices and spend time on the ground in the real world. The weather evidently did not receive the climate alarmism memo.
Well, I don’t imagine that the NWO honchos care much for living in S. Africa, or China for that matter. They’d rather have their own little communist nations in the lands they love. Life is short, you see.
That light at the end of tunnel is a freight train bearing down on us.
Never underestimate the stupidity of our elected representatives, governance, and unelected bureaucrats.
Well, at least amongst all this chaos the trains are still running…… /s
I know WWII type victory gardens won’t solve all these problems but it’s still worth it to try. I’m happy I have my heirloom seeds and other gardening supplies already. The more I grow, the less I need to buy.
Why are comments, at least mine, all showing as “waiting for approval”? They are being quickly approved but did I miss something on why this is happening?
Glitch. Everyone’s in moderation.
Thanks.
Mari;
Sundance posted an article about this issue:
Comments “Awaiting Approval”
January 19, 2022 |
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/01/19/comments-awaiting-approval/
Bless you Ocelot! 😀
Ad rem. You take all the fun out of my hastily, well thought out, deep, and shallow comments brought about by my excercise regimen of jumping to conclusions. It’s the highlight of a grumpy old man’s day. I hope yer satisfied.
😂 ….. I’m far too tired and “cross-eyed” for anybody’s jumpin’ around bill. Swear….pretty soon ima read myself to death! I wonder if they’d classify that as a COVID death….me reading about it and all at the time of demise?
ROTGLMFAO. My grandkids promised me they would tell me what those letters stand for, but then I keep forgetting about what they were supposed to tell me about!
Information from the trade press. Often the best info. As Sundance has said, most of this stuff has been known for a while.
https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/20163-high-fertilizer-prices-tight-supplies-may-adversely-affect-2022-acreage
https://citrusindustry.net/2022/01/17/fertilizer-price-spike-highest-since-great-recession/
https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/crops/article/2022/01/13/texas-study-shows-fertilizer-prices
“You may have heard of foreign and domestic tyrants (Gates) buying up farm lands….”
Will they remain fallow or will the produce just be Exported?
Do you know what the Soviets did to their own people in Ukraine under Lenin and Stalin.?
democRats are Bolsheviks. 2+2=4 but just keep doing that new math brainwashing,Comrades.
Holdomor, the genocide of the Kulaks — peasants who had the temerity to become somewhat independent and successful in grain production. The Soviet regime forced them to send all their grain to the cities. Soldiers shot the gleaners, those starving Kulaks who picked through the fields, salvaging whatever few grains of wheat that had been left behind.
I feel so bad for small business owners, specially the ones in the restaurant Industry, many will have to close their doors. And that will make the supply chain problem worse.
Siege Warfare and the Starvation of Civilians as a Weapon of War and War Crime-Just Security
“A US post-war military commission acquitted Field Marshall Wilhelm von Leeb for his role in the brutal siege of Leningrad (September 1941–January 27, 1944) on this rationale. The opinion states:
The judges concluded, “We might wish the law were otherwise, but we must administer it as we find it.”
US articulations of the law also mirror this evolution. While the 1956 Law of War Army Field Manual noted that there was no rule of law that compelled commanders to permit civilians to leave a besieged locality and that it was within their discretion to drive inhabitants back in order to hasten the surrender of the adversary. The new Department of Defense Law of War Manual, which we have discussed extensively here, on the other hand affirms that the starvation of civilians as a method of conflict is prohibited, regardless of conflict classification.”
We haven’t seen the Government use food as a weapon against Americans since Sherman’s March to the Sea and the Indian Wars.
But we’ve never had a criminal Occupation Government declare war on her citizens before.
Sherman burnt his way through the South destroying homes, destroying fields at harvest and when he reached the ports in Savannah burnt tons of harvested crops on the docks.
If you can imagine it people have done it.
Im reminded of these lyrics
“I don’t know why
people die and kill each other one by one”
This seemed appropriate:
every farmer and his brother are sitting on full bins right now,and alot of elevators around here still have huge piles of corn sitting covered .my step daughters boyfriend said they just sold beans at close to 15 bucks a bushel.corns pushing 7 bucks.stuffs gonna really go up in price.i would love to see em just sit on it and not sell.and if the railroads strike as i hear they are gonna that corn and beans aren’t going anywhere.this could turn into the big ugly real quick
The Joe Biden gang did that by shutting down drilling and pipelines causing the price of LP and NATURAL GAS to skyrocket. You can’t make nitrogen fertilizer without them. They want to control the size of the worlds population and they will whatever it takes to do it.
Granted, not all natural gas comes from federal lands, but a lot does. And the offshore Gulf of Mexico is administered by the feds.
Factoid Alert: The production half-life of a gas well is 4 years – meaning that the ‘useful life’ is 8 years total. However, the time required to produce the 2nd half of that gas total is, generally, 20 years.
The point to be made is that if we quit the drill program, gas production will suffer mightily and quickly.
Background: My (patented) products are used to squeeze gas from older, tired gas wells. You’re welcome.
This will all be blamed this on the greedy farmers. From heroes to zeros just like policemen, nurses, truck drivers, white males, anyone who voted for Trump and the unvaccinated.
Yes and the liberal retards will believe every word of it just like they swallowed hook line and sinker first about the mask, then the shot, the mandate and the booster etc….
My brother
Fewer people aren’t a bad thing, but it’s how you get there that is the problem.
Population density comes at the cost of quality of life. There’s a tipping point.
Mature societies will reach replacement level growth rates. That’s actually fine and a natural process.
But exterminating people like these maniacs want to do is pure evil.
They aren’t just exterminating people. They are killing off people with skills, expecting robots can do the work for less.
Well, the covid scam is just about played out. It had a good run.
The next chapter in the “Road to the progressive vision of Utopia” playbook
is the food supply squeeze . It’s all setup & ready to go.
And just like those of us out in the rural areas did not suffer quite as severely with the Covid, we also won’t get nearly as hungry as quickly as those in the cities.
The Ukrainian kulaks would have thought that, too
Were they armed?
Russians are not Ukrainian. I don’t expect American troops to kill American citizens. They’d have to bring in outsiders, and I’m pretty sure no American citizen would have any qualms in killing a Blue Helmet carrying a weapon on American soil.
I honestly believe that all of this is to usher in electric vehicles, the digital dollar, and laboratory grown meat. When AOC said all cows should be killed, I don’t think she was joking.
A grid system that couldn’t supply those vehicles. Natural weather patterns that year round cannot support solar, or wind. A toxic recycling nightmare, and Frankenstein food.
Hence the popularity amongst the Illuminati of bunkers in NZ & property in Peru & Chile.
They plan to bug out & rule from a distance before they become “the hunted.”
The longer your logistics line the easier it is to disrupt.
None of this moving to NZ or Peru makes sense. Unknown people, unknown country, unless the elites take a large security force they are not safe in these places either. Why not just set up bunkers in a place you know that has good weather, good rainfall, and resources and the locals speak your language? If tshtf banking ceases to exist. What, are they going to pay in gold? Who will guard the stash and be 100% loyal ? See the problem?
Pennsylvania Dairy Farmer Decides To Bottle His Own Milk Rather Than Dump It. Sells Out In Hours.
The American spirit lives on at a 300-year-old, cream-line dairy farm, where a farmer is working around the clock to bottle his own milk after his processor told him to dump it. Locals are lining up to support him.
When Ben Brown’s dairy processor told him they could no longer buy his milk, he got to work bottling it himself.
Brown’s Whoa Nellie Dairy farm has been providing high-quality, cream-line milk since the 1700s.
He sells some of it at his on-site farm store, but a large portion of it used to be sold to a dairy processor who pasteurized and bottled it for local restaurants and markets.
When he realized he would have to dump hundreds of gallons of milk each week until his 70 milking cows dried up, he couldn’t bear it.
More here:
https://livingofthegreed.com/pennsylvania-dairy-farmer-decides-to-bottle-his-own-milk-rather-than-dump-it-sells-out-in-hours/
HERO!
Probably illegal due to govt. regulations.
Put a label on it that says “Kitten Food.” Like ivermectin, sometimes humans use this too.
Unexpectedly.
Farmers are feeling the pinch, but this ties directly back to misinformation that has come through the University System and large corporate greed. We are already growing more food than we need, as close to 40% of all food is lost between the farm and the plate. We, especially the US, overapply synthetic fertilizers and pesticides which degrade soil health. DAP and the forms of Nitrogen that we use equate to Junk Food. Of all Synthetic Fertilizer Applied
Soil Health is the answer but that is not profitable to the fertilizer industry, the chemical companies, or the government. Soil Health ties directly to rainfall infiltration and the release of tied-up nutrients that are only released or available when soil organisms release them. Increases in all of the synthetics inhibit and/or destroy the system that has the ability to release nutrients and increase farmer profits. Instead, the crop insurance program pays the farmer just enough to keep them in the program /cash flow.
I took a class from Jeff Smith on GMOs a few years ago. A lot of what you are implying has to do with the chemicals and lack of soil bacteria.
I know that this thread is about the large-scale use of fertilizers, but last year, I had a hard time getting general garden fertilizer after the end of February – guess I waited too late to start looking. (Did get several smaller bags.) This past week, Walmart got one flat of 40 pound bags of 13-13-13, total price of one bag was $19.67. I don’t know if there will be a shortage later this spring, so posting in case anyone wants to check local stores early.
Rake up your chicken poo, cow poo, horse poo and let it rot in a nice pile.. compost works wonders in a veggie garden..
I’ve lived in places where farmers /horse peeps were happy to drop it off , if you didn’t have your own supply.
Can suburban people use dog poop?
No. Dog/cat ruins compost.
Funny how everything in Bible Prophecy is coming true…
It is wonderful and exhilarating how everything in the Bible is coming true.
But it is not for the faint of heart or the Christmas/Easter Christian.
Five of the virgins were prepared when the Groom returned and they went into the marriage ceremony, five were not and were cast out, but all knew the Groom was coming back for the Wedding.
Funny how everything in B…ible Pro*, phecy is coming true…
“Those higher prices for natural gas, oil, fuel, etc mean higher prices for fertilizer… which leads to less food.”
And more higher prices. And even less food. And …
Funny how everything in Bible Prophecy is coming true
Just an FYI here – If you can home garden and want to do your own fertilizer, the little book “Let It Rot” by Stu Campbell is the only info you need. I never buy fertilizer and have a very large garden. Garbage in, fertilizer out, just like magic.
History lesson: It only takes one nation’s people to decisively handle it’s tyrant problem. The other tyrants usually flee in cowardly terror. Example: the French Revolution was followed by the Glorious Revolution.
“I am Tank Man”
Canada when it comes to food is goung to be very screwed. Moreso than US
Are higher fertilizer costs a mere consequence of the Climate Change agenda or an intended result? If one is wedded to “man-made climate change”, isn’t a reduction in population actually a key component of any serious plan? After all, but for mankind, the climate would not change (I assume) or so the theory would seem to presume.
That is a really good question. I guess it depends on whether you think the crazy times are due to incompetence or malfeasance. … stupidity or intent.
I choose both. 😉
In my youth I kept pigeons. My plants and garden were never quite as happy as when they got their share of the pigeon leavings.
As an adult I kept koi. Again, the garden loved the waste material from a pond.
If you have your own garden and feel a need to have fertilizer, those are two options I have personal experience with them working.
The pivot point for the future of the world will be the welfare state.
Having created a huge dependency class with the welfare state, the rich have a wolf by the ears. Clearly the “elite” realize this now, and see massive de-population as their only escape route.
The foreign aid culture and apparatus constructed after World War II was not created out of philanthropy, but to stem the takeover of the third-world by the communists. The threat has passed, and the gravitational pull of any and all bureaucracies is not enough to keep the balloon inflated. Easier to bring the poor from poor countries to America and western Europe, to overwhelm the antiquated populist and democratic notions of the middle class.
There was never such a thing as a welfare state constructed out of pure altruism. The British National Health Service was created in response to the poor health of the young men drafted into the British Army in World War I. FDR’s New Deal was seen as the essential roadblock to true revolution during the Depression.
Even the leftist Democrats, who have now embraced anarchism as a magical way to “reset” America, must understand that one of the first casualties of anarchism would be the welfare state.
The conservative and nationalist Bismarck invented the old-age pension to thwart his rival, the socialists. The tidal wave of pensioners crashing down on the western world because of the ageing of the baby boom generation produces an unsustainable burden. Luckily, at just the right moment, Co-Vid appeared: it virtually kills only the very old and very sick. What a stroke of luck!
I live smack dab in the middle of a 100 mile radius which produces 65% of the nations fruits, vegetables and nuts. Every morning I go to this farmers coffee-shop. This morning they were all talking about; fertilizer, water, fuel, insecticide, herbicide costs. It is mind boggling the cost of all this now. Also, the cost of farm equipment if you can get it.
The cost of food is high now can you imagine a year from now? The yield per acre will no doubt be less which only exasperates food production shortages. The only bright side is they all blame Biden and the Democrats. There was one Farmer who is a Biden/democrat supporter. He doesn’t even show-up there any more. Lol.
I can remember growing up listening to the local news station in the Dayton, Ohio area reporting on the farm loss/gains during the noon broadcast. My mom always had it on because her soap operas followed the news lol.
Food shortages will surely exaggerate my exasperation!
What I find rather interesting including myself when I was farming. Not one farmer I know and I know a lot of them grows their own garden. Everyone goes to the store to buy their groceries just as does a city-slicker.
I guess we are so used to breaking ground with a tractor, the thought of breaking ground with a hoe and shovel never crosses the mind.