Elizabeth Pearce @ SymSoil
1 min readNov 17, 2022

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I think there is typo in your first line - you meant 2028 right?

We should all be familiar with the 2007–2008 food crisis, where there were protests in over 60 countries and food export restrictions in 30 countries. Global food security is tied to a few mega-crops, on which civilization developed and rests: corn/maize, wheat, rice and soybeans.

To quote Tim Benton (Research Director at Chatham House and Professor of Population Ecology at University of Leeds and head of their Global Security Program and) and Rob Bailey (now with Marsh McLennan, formerly with Chatham House) in a New York Times Op Ed piece Extreme Weather and Food Shocks, “ Once shocks to the food system spill over into other areas, they can cascade through economic and political systems with sometimes devastating consequences. … were two events to happen in the same year…” Say a war in the Ukraine, heat waves in India, drought in California (pick your poison), “ … it would result in 5% to 10% of the major crops to fail, more than enough to supply the basic calorie needs of the United States for a year. “

Famine is closer than most people understand.

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Elizabeth Pearce @ SymSoil
Elizabeth Pearce @ SymSoil

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