[BTerclinger]

"But not just to China. The country already is a net food importer. Without soybeans from Brazil and the USA and wheat from Australia and Europe and the US, China cannot feed its livestock let alone its human population. The collapse of the TGD would perhaps be the single largest disaster that could affect the world’s food security because aside from the immediate disaster there would be enormous upward pressure on food prices, putting essential staples out of reach of hundreds of millions of people outside China."

If 400 million people drown, wouldn't that lessen demand for food in China? "The point here is that anyone concerned about food anywhere should want to think through what they might do if the TGD failed." STOCK UP AHEAD OF TIME?

[BeauBo]

I saw an analyst stating that even if the Three Gorges Dam holds and the monsoon ends, Chinese crops have already taken a big hit this year from the flooding.