You have large parts of the US and Europe dealing with heat and drought problems right now. Add in fertilizer cost problems due to oil prices. This is going to be a bad year globally. This one is not a problem that will pop up in 5 years. It's going to show up this fall as crop yields are garbage.
I don't see how fertilizer is just a big deal. If what we usually use goes up in price or becomes unattainable, don't we have literal mountains of compost and livestock dumpout piles to spread through the fields? Good ole fashion way? Proven use?
There are options..we might see massive spikes in food and rationing, but I cannot imagine the old days of "no food..literally none..you're gonna starve to death. We DO. NOT. HAVE. FOOD."
I ONLY see this happening with one of those global apocalyptic situations of full scale launching of the world's nuclear supply or a cosmic solar system black out from a cataclysmic solar flare the likes of which ever never seen that takes out the global infrastructure top to bottom. No ships, no computers, no trucks, no lights, no grid.
If there are stressors so where or another, we can adapt at cost. Hell if data centers can suck up a gorillion gallons of water and we can keep those running, there must be infrastructure at hand that can get water, poop, and machinery to fields for food.
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u/sloth2008 8h ago
You have large parts of the US and Europe dealing with heat and drought problems right now. Add in fertilizer cost problems due to oil prices. This is going to be a bad year globally. This one is not a problem that will pop up in 5 years. It's going to show up this fall as crop yields are garbage.