to skyrocket while millions in poor countries begin to starve. when people go hungry, they get violent. the white house should be taking this seriously but it doesn t appear that they are. biden official samantha powers summed up their stance perfectly. quote: never let a crisis go to waste. their position is that of marie antoinette. let them eat cake but this time it s let them use cow patties. they see poor people starving as an opportunity for farmers to transition to green energy. watch. fertilizer shortages are real now because russia is a big exporter of fertilizer and even though fertilizer is not sanctioned. less fertilizer is coming out of russia. as a result, we are working with countries to think about natural solutions like manure and compost this may hasten transitions that would have been in the interest of farmers to make eventually anyway. so never let a crisis go to waste. will: dung and compost.
remember that migrants urge on the southern border a few years ago? it included many displaced farmers from guatemala, and we may expect more of the same. that is because of the impact of fertilizer shortages does not just impact this year s crop, but next year, and the following year as well. millions of people in the global south turn out of the option to simply stop farming, but they ll be getting smaller and smaller return on their efforts that they put into their fields. putin s violent invasion of ukraine could be laying the groundwork for hard times ahead in thousands of places, miles away from kyiv and moscow. kyiv is a bread basket of the middle east and africa, russia is the fertilizer provider for asia and south america. a region where 60 million people were reduced for poverty and insecurity during the pandemic and who have yet to recover. combined with the ongoing climate catastrophe as we re all living through, now is the time to take the threat of hunger seriously. the t
The world is currently in an engineered panic over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. And some governments are responding with outlandish new policies that threaten to starve out their citizens. [.]