> Yeah, us sitting here in our offices in the richest country in the world, arguably the people who helped cause this, won't be effected. Maybe our food prices

> Yeah, us sitting here in our offices in the richest country in the world, arguably the people who helped cause this, won't be effected. Maybe our food prices go up a tiny bit. > The people in developing countries, like usual, will now become victims of starvation, which will lead to revolutions and civil war, and ultimately more suffering. > Somebody's twitter thread about how acksually this isn't a bad thing offers me The Twitter thread very explicitly states that this is an extremely bad bad thing that will cause famine in specific developing countries and that the actual resulting issue we need to address to prevent it is logistics. From the thread: > Again, specific places are facing EXTREMELY REAL wheat supply problems. MENA usually sources from Ukraine. Switching supply chains to India & other sources takes extra time, & if they're further away from India and Ukraine, it takes longer for supplies to get there. > What these places are facing is a SHIPPING shortage. > Not a lack of enough wheat in the world. > Their food supply chain problems are still dangerous. A local, shipping-induced shortage that lasts a week can still kill you. > To solve that problem, we gotta start with being clear on what the problem IS! > We haven't! We decided it's a wheat shortage, not a shipping shortage. > ... > And that's how a 0.9% shortfall in global wheat production, that farmers already fixed 4 months ago, turned into a global commodity panic that solved nothing > while a very real shipping problem continues to threaten people's lives.