885: Famine is Coming (This Episode Explains Why): Interview with Steven Harris
Radical Personal Finance
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The Importance of Natural Gas for Fertilizer Production
Natural gas is a primary fuel for fuelling machinery making and virtually everything in the industril cycle. If we diverted more natural gas tom nitrogen fertilizer that might allow us to produce sufficient quantities of food to minimize the global famine. But that will have massive effects on industry, on people's ability to keep their houses warm,. on home prices they pay for gas heating, et cetera. And food is perhaps the most pressing. And the other things are also very bad. Is that affair? Well, that is only the tip of the iceberg. Because hungry, cold people change entire countries and worlds in days and weeks, not months and years.
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