It’s an Unraveling, Not a ResetThe hubris of our transnational “elites” isn’t remaking the world—it’s unraveling it faster and faster.
By Robin Burk
January 27, 2022
Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that a shortage of fertilizer is causing farms in the developing world to fail, threatening food shortages and hunger. Ironically, the lead photo is of mounds of phosphate fertilizer in a Russian warehouse.
Modern synthetic fertilizers are typically made using natural gas or from phosphorous-bearing ores. The former provides the nitrogen that is critical to re-use of fields in commercial agriculture. They constitute more than half of all synthetic fertilizer production.
So what happens when oil and natural gas extraction are crippled in industrialized nations? One likely outcome is that the fertilizer manufacturing industry is also crippled, leaving both large commercial growers and smaller farms around the world starved of a key substance they need to grow food for hungry populations.
According to Wikipedia (yes, I know), that’s to be welcomed. After all,
[ S]tarting in the 19th century, after innovations in plant nutrition, an agricultural industry developed around synthetically created fertilizers. This transition was important in transforming the global food system, allowing for larger-scale industrial agriculture with large crop yields. In particular nitrogen-fixing chemical processes . . . led to a boom in using nitrogen fertilizers. In the latter half of the 20th century, increased use of nitrogen fertilizers (800% increase between 1961 and 2019) has been a crucial component of the increased productivity of conventional food systems (more than 30% per capita) as part of the so-called ‘Green Revolution’.[2]
Synthetic fertilizer used in agriculture has wide-reaching environmental consequences. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Climate Change and Land, production of these fertilizers and associated land use practices are key drivers of global warming.[2] The use of fertilizer has also led to a number of direct environmental consequences: agricultural runoff which leads to downstream effects like ocean dead zones and waterway contamination, soil microbiome degradation,[3] and accumulation of toxins in ecosystems. Indirect environmental impacts include: the environmental impacts of fracking for natural gas used in the Haber process, the agricultural boom is partially responsible for the rapid growth in human population . . .
So the IPCC says artificial fertilizer is a bad thing—and if you can’t trust the IPCC, who can you trust?
The real message is: “Pity about those people who’ll go hungry but there are just too many people living too well. They need our enlightened control as we ‘reset’ the world to make it a better place.”
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In the short run, the transnational globalists will attempt to use such events to assert increasingly totalitarian control of people, movement, goods, and more. It won’t take long for those attempts to exacerbate the chaos, the shortages, the conflict, and the disease. The tighter their attempted control, the greater and deeper the damage they will cause.
There is one ray of light in all this, though, if we act quickly and with resolution.
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After the fall of imperial Rome, small, self-contained Christian monasteries in Europe preserved literacy. They initiated local agriculture on a communal scale. They maintained networks of correspondence and, over time, of physical travel and interaction. Slowly medieval towns and cities arose, built or rebuilt on a devastated landscape. Trade and industries revived, and an urban middle class began to emerge.
Today our populations are much larger, and so are the surveillance and other powers of a tech-enabled would-be tyrannical elite. But we too have tech and other tools we can use to build resilience in our communities, regions, and more.
It starts by resisting the erosion of our social, economic, and political ties with one another. It is strengthened by deliberately building bonds at a distance among the like-minded and locally among neighbors.
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Source:
https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/27/its-an-unraveling-not-a-reset/
