Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Rising Fertilizer Costs Threatening Rice Supplies
April 20th, 2022Via: Bloomberg: Soaring fertilizer costs have rice farmers across Asia scaling back their use, a move that threatens harvests of a staple that feeds half of humanity and could lead to a full-blown food crisis if prices aren’t curbed. From India to Vietnam and the Philippines, prices of crop nutrients crucial to boosting food production […]
“Very Unusual” Rise In Cases Of Severe Liver Damage Seen In Children Across UK, US, and Europe
April 18th, 2022Maybe they can push through some more experimental gene therapies to help with this… Via: IFLScience: An unusual rise in liver damage cases in children has been seen in the UK, US and Europe, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to closely monitor the situation. On April 5, the WHO was informed of 10 cases […]
Union Pacific Is Halting Delivery of Fertilizer Shipments [???]
April 17th, 2022Via: Natural News: According to an April 14th announcement from CF Industries, Union Pacific is halting the delivery of fertilizer shipments right in the middle of peak planting season for farmers. CF Industries warns that, “railroad-mandated shipping reductions [will] result in nitrogen fertilizer shipment delays during the spring application season and that it [will] be […]
Tesla Model 3 Computer System Crashes as Vehicle Is Traveling 83MPH
April 13th, 2022Luckily, the brakes still worked… What we’re seeing here is slipshod engineering that’s more akin to a buggy computer operating system than something like a high reliability glass cockpit from the aviation world. And even in aviation, we find the following: Due to the possibility of a blackout, glass cockpit aircraft also have an integrated […]
Racist Math [???]
April 13th, 2022Via: Jonathan Turley: We previously discussed the view of University of Rhode Island and Director of Graduate Studies of History Erik Loomis that “Science, statistics, and technology are all inherently racist.” Others have agreed with that view, including denouncing math as racist or a “tool of whiteness.” Now, as part of its “decolonization” efforts, Durham […]
EPA Ignores Own Science, Plans to Reapprove Deadly Neonicotinoid Pesticides
April 12th, 2022Via: The Defender: Recent coverage by The Guardian of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) plan — to extend the registration of several demonstrably harmful neonicotinoid insecticides — compels Beyond Pesticides to identify, once again, the agency’s failures to enact its core mission. That mission is “to protect human health and the environment,” and to […]
China Port Congestion Leaves Everything From Grains to Metals Stranded
April 11th, 2022Via: Bloomberg: Dotting the sea off Chinese ports are 477 bulk cargo ships waiting to deliver resources from metal ore to grain into the country. Queues of vessels carrying raw materials have jumped after Shanghai initiated a city-wide lockdown at the end of last month to combat Covid-19. More than two weeks on, the congestion […]
BASF CEO: Banning Russian Energy Imports Could Throw Germany Into Historic Crisis
April 9th, 2022Via: Reuters: Germany could face its biggest economic crisis in nearly 80 years should imports of Russian gas and oil be stopped or disrupted in the long-term, the chief executive of BASF, one of the country’s biggest electricity consumers, said. “This could throw the German economy into its biggest crisis since the end of World […]
The Global Fertilizer Shortage Means That Far Less Food Will Be Grown All Over The Planet In 2022
April 9th, 2022Via: Economic Collapse Blog: A fertilizer shortage has added to growing concerns about the Ukraine war’s impact on the price and scarcity of certain basic foods. Combined, Russia and Belarus had provided about 40% of the world’s exports of potash, according to Morgan Stanley. Russia’s exports were hit by sanctions. Further, in February, a major […]
“Will Famine Emerge by Year End? Yes.”
April 8th, 2022Via: Peak Prosperity:
