• HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I have been telling anyone who would listen, this whole year practically, to stock up on dried goods. Since I saw the ocean temps and as we got news about el nino, mixed with the war that had just broken out, closing all fertilizer plants in Southern Asia basically, it was obviously going to blowback into multiple bread basket failures simultaneously which can easily lead to GLOBAL FAMINE.

    I have been losing my god damned mind this whole year trying to come up with a plan to protect my family on a much shorter timescale than I previously was (which anyone would describe was also doomerism).

    • Malyca@lemmy.zip
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      1 day ago

      Good luck growing anything. The plants can’t handle climate change as well. A lot of us got nothing this summer.

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      Garden can only help so much when your issue is gardening is threatened

      Reducing waste and canning however, good ideas imo

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      That’s not going to change the price of fertilizer, growing your own is going to get expensive too.

      Like, shit is accelerating the shortage, but it was happening anyways. And there’s legitimately no solution. There’s things we can do to mitigate it, but it’s just kicking the can down the road at this point.

      Like, you know how people always said “we grow enough food, it’s a distribution problem”…

      That’s not going to be true for much longer, the planet just can’t support anywhere near this amount of humans without fertilizer, and we’re running out. We need multiple kinds, and the ones we can “make” are made from finite resources.

      Shits going to get rough, and gardens are not going to fix it.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      We should expect high inflation for the rest of your lives. Climate change was always going to cause this, even without an oligarchy of psychopathic criminals and pedophiles.