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> A small disruption in the intricate supply chain of essential food is all it takes. During the start of COVID the supply chain of food got disrupted quite a
by neckardt 6y ago
> A small disruption in the intricate supply chain of essential food is all it takes.
During the start of COVID the supply chain of food got disrupted quite a bit. Large restaurant suppliers no longer had customers because the restaurants were closed and grocery stores didn't have enough supply to keep up with customers. However, I didn't even have to dig into my emergency rice stash at all, and I haven't heard of anyone else actually going hungry.
Do you think a larger disruption might cause a cascading effect, or how exactly would that play out? The COVID example appears to show the opposite: our food supply chain is rather robust.
- harikb 6y agoYou are correct that the “end of world” predicted in initial months didn’t play out... yet. However, I feel even this is mostly luck. We got lucky with something that can be reasonably controlled with masks and hand washing. Next pandemic will have countries hoarding masks and essentials even more early. All that said, I was still talking about non-pandemic events.
- neckardt 6y agoThe pandemic example was just an argument that our food supply system is robust in the face of some unexpected events. What do you think could happen during non-pandemic events which could topple it?
- TeMPOraL 6y agoAntagonistic relations. During COVID-19 pandemic, most nations took the "we're all in it together" stance (despite being mostly busy handling things domestically). Climate change will create lots of opportunities for war - migration pressure, resource shortage pressure, new lands being suddenly available and competed for, etc.