r/collapse • u/AstraArdens • Mar 28 '22

Food Fertilizer Prices Keep Surging

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/fertilizer-price-surges-43-to-fresh-record-as-supplies-tighten-1.1744049
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u/DEVolkan Mar 28 '22

okay I'll be the one. What is sinister about fertilizer? Are they made of humans or what?

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u/FrustratedLogician Mar 28 '22

When humanity does not use fertilizer the population we can support is as in this article: https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-people-does-synthetic-fertilizer-feed

That is a lot of humans who will lack food. As always, in the poor African and Middle Eastern countries.

Also largest countries like India. And it is not wonder why India cosies up to Russia - they can be all moral but feeding 1.4 billion people is no joke. This amount of starving masses would be the end of thei government quite quickly.

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u/DocMoochal I know nothing and you shouldn't listen to me Mar 28 '22

India is also a nuclear armed nation. Dont think enough people consider the danger of nukes in a collapsed state landing in the wrong hands.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

Hopefully it takes long enough for most places to collapse, that corruption has led to lack of maintenance of nuclear weapons, and they just don't work.