That’s 60% of global ammonium nitrate production, just in time for planting season. Someone better at the economy than me tell me what this means for food prices… :biden-fall:
Since we live in the dumbest timeline, WWIII over fertilizer sounds about right.
war over bird shit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chincha_Islands_War
Synthetic ammonium nitrate was first mass-produced for bombs in WWI, so it'd be a poetic conclusion of this truly demonic historical cycle.
This seems bad.
Like I’m all :amerikkka: like the rest of us, but food prices going up is gonna fuck EVERYONE up.
there's no way around it though, besides forced equitable distribution of food. there's a real shortage in fertilizer right now.
Last August, the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute in Missouri projected only a 10% increase in fertilizer prices in its forecast model, but recent spot prices have forecasts reaching as high as 80% more for the 2022 planting season. Source
and that was before this...
Noodles are gonna get pricey, huh?The u.s military industrial complex is one of the few untouched factory systems in America because it's impossible to make it more profitable from offshoreing production.
Also you can't bribe congresscritters with easy reelections if the jobs are no longer in their districts
A chemical shortage in China caused an ammo shortage that lasted two years and just now has been recovered from.
I don't know I read a book written in 1893 that warned of both this and climate change
Lol yeah but then they'd have to pay people here like $12/hour instead of paying some Russians $8/hour and some CEO would make like 2% less per year
:radio:It's an easy move, but will the Canadian government even consider it? I know where the smart money is...
During WW2, the cringly named "Freedom Farms" at their peak produced half of all the vegetables in the United States. Just remember that you can grow a significant portion of your veggies for yourself in a relatively short time frame
If you can, try to avoid using peat. It's very damaging to the environment to dig it up to sell
Coco coir is a good alternative but make sure to sanitize it before using!
Ooh yeah high temperature composting is a very cool technology. Seems difficult to dial in to keep safe and consistent. It’s something I’d like to get into if I had more than one life to live. Such a compelling process engineering challenge!
Using alcohol to make "pickled people poop" actually would be a way to make human feces safer to add to a back yard compost.
For this scenario, it doesn't matter. All you're wanting is to reduce the e.coli and parasite load in human feces to make it safer to handle during composting. You can make alcohol from wood chips if you wanted, but if you're trying to do this entirely on your own its a process. If you were living in a more communal setting though, it would be easier to do.
The "time efficient" thing can be a bit sticky and kinda gets me too when I think about composting toilets out at the farm.
Yeah, trying to compost human waste in small scale, quickly and safely, to use on food crops is something that takes a bit of fore though and planning. And I'd bet it would always be a bit weird when guests came over.
For small scale stuff... It seems easier to just have animals turning grass into poop where the parasites shared between people and the animal are fewer so I can just shovel the poop into piles mixed with grass and just poke at it every few days.
Well it’s a good thing rising food prices aren’t correlated with civil and political unrest or anything like that, otherwise this could get ugly
:stonks-up: for food prices. either russia is dealing with export capital typical shenanigans - sorry they pay better prices over there, fuck your harvest - or it’s pressure on the west, which would be inhumane.
I think it’s the first though
or it’s pressure on the west, which would be inhumane.
You're not wrong, but it's kind of like complaining that your adversary in war has started doing war crimes back to you in response to your war crimes. We have people like Madeline Albright go on TV and say it's worth it for a million Iraqi kids to die as a result of sanctions as long as it makes Saddam unpopular. If the same tactics start driving up malnutrition at home, well, this is the game they chose to play.
Sure, as inter-empire shit, all is ”fair” in war, but it wouldn’t even hurt “enemies”, it would drive malnutrition in india and other monocrop/industrial crop countries, cause highest bidder would always be the west :deeper-sadness:
nah check out global fertilizer prices. they're just stopping their capitalists from selling their fertilizer at the highest bidder instead of selling it to local farmers at more reasonable prices so they can grow and sell food at reasonable prices
Good thing my mom already hoards boxes of lasagna noodles for some reason.
Putin is becoming an annoying organic food guy, he won't eat food with synthetic fertilizer and neither will the rest of the world
