0 sats \ 2 replies \ @KenyaCoin OP 3 Jun 2022 \ on: Peter Zeihan: "Over the next few years, we're probably going to lose a billion people from famine." bitcoin
"If you interrupt the input streams, these are the ones looking at at least a 40% reduction in the ability to grow the crop in the first place, because they can't source things [fertilizer, fuel, etc.], themselves very well."
"If two food poor countries are next to each other, you can have incessant ongoing war until both of them collapse. And historically speaking we have plenty of examples of what this looks like, and none of them are pretty."
The segment where these statements are taken starts here:
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @KenyaCoin OP 3 Jun 2022
Here's another segment on Agriculture:
"[Before 1945, ...,] either you had the oil, and so you had an empire and colonies, or you did not, and you were a colony."
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @KenyaCoin OP 3 Jun 2022
I can't find the part where he had said [something to the effect of] agriculture in Africa won't see nearly as much of a decline (e.g., in percentage terms) because in Africa farming techniques generally are not using the same methods as in other areas where there is a higher reliance on farm equipment and fertilizers.
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