> We aren't far more brittle either; if anything, our ability to ship in goods from other continents makes us far more resilient for anything less than a sudden

> We aren't far more brittle either; if anything, our ability to ship in goods from other continents makes us far more resilient for anything less than a sudden planetary-scale event. We are pretty much totally reliant on our current ability to ship food across the world which does make our current situation unprecedented. If we have a couple of years of various crop failures (e.g. due to weather patterns changing), then there will be a significant number of people dying. We don't have the necessary stockpiles to sustain the world's population for the amount of time required to drastically change how we do things.