THEY'RE POISONING THE SEED: How a Single Strait 7,000 Miles Away Is About to Starve 2 Billion People—And Why Your Government Already Knows
EDITOR’S NOTE: What you’re about to read isn’t coming from some fringe blog or doomsday cult. These are the numbers that keep people like Steve Keen awake at night—numbers that don’t care about your political affiliation, your stock portfolio, or how many cans of beans you’ve got stashed in the garage. We didn’t want to run this story. We’d rather tell you everything’s fine, that the system works, that smart people in charge have it all figured out. But that’s not what the math says. That’s not what the supply chains are whispering. And that’s definitely not what the empty shelves in places like Sri Lanka and Argentina were trying to tell us before the rest of us stopped listening. Read it or don’t. The fertilizer doesn’t care either way. You probably didn’t notice. Most people don’t. While you were arguing about whatever culture war garbage filled your feed last week, the price of urea—a compound most Americans couldn’t identify if it showed up on a chemistry test—quietly hit $520 pe...