You’re joking right? You know that the globe is so short of fertilizer that mass starvation is coming ? You know that The Administration is putting in place measures to massively cut food production, economic production and energy usage? That nothing like this has ever been done in the history of mankind ?
This is DELIBERATE starvation and economic collapse, nothing like your previous experience. With all due respect, you have a serious failure of imagination, unable to see that the future could be different from what you have experienced in the past. Are you seriously justifying food shortages by saying obesity is a problem? This is mind boggling. People are overweight so let’s starve them. Can you hear yourself? This isn’t even reasoning it’s just plain sticking your fingers in your ears and refusing to listen to reason.
It’s not a question of Russia’s GDP. It’s a question of physical reality - without Russian fertilizer the planet cannot produce enough food to feed 8 billion folks. It’s a question of biology not GDP. The vaunted American food surplus could disappear in a single growing season.
Now back to the Ukraine issue. Regardless of whether we have economic armageddon or not - bottom line, Ukraine is not an American interest. It’s not a Westen interest. It’s of no interest to anyone except themselves and Russia. America needs to keep its nose out and deal with internal issues that will destroy the country in a generation if not solved.
Food prices will rise even more here and in Europe. China will have a really pissed off population because of their dependency on food imports. Latin America will limp along as usual. But East Africa will starve.
More or less as usual, but more starvation among the world's poorest. India I don't know about.
As far as the US goes, the most pressing issue is the maliciously destructive actions of our wannabee authoritarian regime. But that doesn't mean we should allow our geopolitical security interests in Europe to blown away by a rampaging Bear.
Many poor countries will suffer given the loss of both Russian and Ukraiane grains even to the point of starvation. This will not happen in the US because we alredy throw out about 30 to 40% of the food we buy, or at least including what gets thrown out in grocery stores, transport and storage. There are few fields that are gleaned, etc.
We have plenty to do in the way of reducing waste and eating less, without anyone starving. There is much food not used because it is not commercially beautiful. When I was a child we had old pear trees surrounded by woods. I would pick up these hard pears with bad sponts, some rot, etc. and my mother would pare them, can them, and we would have delicious pear preserves the rest of the year. The same with the less than perfect apples from our one apple tree. Lots of applesauce to enjoy, all this during and after WW2. I can imagine schools and churches organizing gleaning parties with local farmers, and lots of other waste reduction activities that a few are already doing and can teach others.