“…The regular flow of 20% of the world’s global oil production has been stopped dead in its tracks.
Even worse, the flow of 30% of global urea production has been stopped dead in its tracks. Urea is crucial to the production of powerful artificial chemical fertilizer under the Haber-Bosch process. And those fertilizers are absolutely essential for the growth of the miracle fast-reproducing strains of grain and rice developed by the great American agronomist Norman Borlaug 60 years ago.
Today, the global population stands at 8.3 billion, 40 percent of whom—more than 3.3 billion people—are absolutely dependent on the basic food staples grown by fertilizers produced by the Haber-Bosch process.
As noted, U.S. strategist and commentator Colonel Larry Johnson warned on the “Capitals Uncovered” podcast hosted by Anglo-Swedish journalist Pelle Neroth-Taylor and me last week, unless that fertilizer flow is rapidly restored, global grains and rice production will collapse catastrophically by the end of this year, and global famine on an unprecedented scale will threaten…”