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'The planting season is now,' but war in Iran has sparked a global fertilizer shortage (www.pbs.org)

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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 1 points 12 hours ago

You’ve misread. This sentence you are referring to “The fertilizer shortage is putting the livelihood of farmers in developing countries — already troubled by rising temperatures and erratic weather systems — further at risk, and could lead to people everywhere paying more for food” is talking about the costs from a lowering of supply, not from things just “getting more expensive”.

No, the issue I'm referring to is the broader issue addressed by most of the fucking article, the increased expense of fertilizer, the direct issue which is being discussed and does not have a serious possibility of leading to widespread famine.

So…. Exactly what is happening right now then?

"Global market prices going up is widespread society breakdown on the regional level."

Yes. You got it in one. Brilliant.

Nobody said anything about seed grain being used up, what are you talking about?

Then why the fuck do you think that crop rotation would be impossi-

If there are global crop failures then we wont have nutrients in the soil to even make rotation a possibility.

Oh, Jesus fucking Christ.