You'd see it much clearly if you visit the r/FridgeDetective subreddit.
People post their fridge there and everyone gets to
assess and "judge" what kind of person that Redditor might be.
It's some harmless fun sub, but you can definitely see the difference between those who have the wealth to have a fridge with healthy diet and lifestyle...
Versus those who can't afford the pricey fresh produce and have no choice but to rely on factory produced processed foods that are more affordable yet VERY unhealthy. The type that can sabotage your health.
Yeah a silent one not outright starvation but poor nutrition and not enough food.
I don’t know why majority of people still believe we’re living in good times and that this system will last forever and things will continue to slowly improve when food prices keep rising several percent every year.
I've reached the point where I get very (internally) upset when people excitedly share pregnancy announcements. What kind of life have they convinced themselves that their children will get to have.
I got a vasectomy in 2022 and i don't regret it, it was easy and wasn't really that uncomfortable.
Since then some of my friends have had kids, and i don't know what the fuck they are thinking. I live in America and we are actively spiraling right now. Its like they believe their life will get better when its been getting worse for the past 20 years.
Its like they think it cant be them, when Ive seen educated people with tons of experience in their field laid off, lose their house/apartment and fail to find a job for 12-14 months, forcing them to uproot their lives and move back in with parents/friends/ or "lower COA area"
Shit is probably gonna be really bad at this rate, id give it 3-5 years but who knows at this point.
Lots of this shit was set in motion before i was born, and shit has been fucked for a long time. But lots of days i wish i would wake up and its 1999, im a kid again and the past 2 decades had been a bad dream.
I have to disagree with you here- humanity has lived through some truly horrendous times. Plagues and wars and natural disasters of enormous scale and destruction.
Everyone on this subreddit is (rightly) worried about society collapsing, but if we all stop having kids, it is guaranteed to disappear anyway.
We need good people to have kids imo. Otherwise we just leave civilisation to those that don’t care.
I guess what I don't understand is, if you love a hypothetical being, why subject them to such horrendous times of enormous scale and destruction? Just to keep it going for as long as possible? Are we really just out here having kids so that we can say that humanity is sturdy as a species?
It's time to find a new model besides constant population growth on a planet with limited resources. How many more billions of people will we need to add before we realize we might have too many? Maybe we shouldn't have built every developed country's future plans on a constantly increasing population of workers.
The collapse that everyone here is panicking about is attributable to our population explosion, the climate change that's being caused by all the people and a limited amount of resources.
The small picture collapse that you're fretting about is the collapse of capitalism-based economies that require continuous growth.
The big picture collapse is the one where we don't have enough resources for our enormous population and climate change warms our planet so much that disasters are killing people daily.
The thing you're worried about is small potatoes compared to the real collapse.
I don't have my own kids, but I still have empathy for the billions of people who will suffer and die due to climate change disasters. I'm not sure why you'd clock me as someone who doesn't care about the rest of the world when I already pointed out my concern for the planet.
One of the biggest issues I have with this whole freakout over the declining birthrate in developed countries is that it's very xenophobic in nature.
The overall birthrate in the world is still increasing, yet Americans, Europeans, Japanese, South Koreans will all scrunch up their faces and go "Well no, we don't want more of those people." It's pretty disgusting.
I'm honestly ready for them to lose out if they can't accept that people from all countries are just as valid and good as the people from their own.
For the record, the population has been severely underestimated because of rural living all of the world, so it’s estimated to be somewhere between 8.3 and 9.5 billion. FACK!
Speak for yourself? I'm in Europe and while that's a privileged place to be, and I consider myself lucky, it isn't a region that hasn't seen brutality on a large scale and for many of the past hundred years. And yet, irreversible changes to major earth systems threaten the foundations of life more than any war or natural disaster ever has. This point in time is not comparable to prior centuries.
The damage we've done to our "environment" doesn't just disappear. Think forever plastics, ocean acidification, temperatures becoming so high that plants can't grow, seasonal patterns changing so quickly that animals can't adapt. I agree with your last sentences, but on the other hand, people don't have to "have" kids i.e. bring more kids into the world. You could also be a great aunt or uncle, for instance.
Actually not the kids born today but the kids born after 2040 probably much better then any other generation before them when ai replaces politics, the ones born today still have to live many years through the dark and age and will get screwed up. I predict dark age then post scarcity but not for decades.
Distractions and the technology associated with them have improved exponentially while everything else gets shitty. A long enough internet blackout would probably change a more than a few minds. People see things posted or broadcast that make it look like everyone is doing fine and thriving, internally they view their own situation as a personal failure and something to be ashamed of so they keep quiet.
Yeah human guilt is the problem the system did a very good job training us that way. Im not guilty about anything I’m a victim to nature for putting me in the wrong era and to the system I do goof off but only because everything is pointless and chaotic.
I live in a major city in the US and while "panhandling" outside of shops has always been common it is worse than ever now. Every time I go to the grocery store there's more than one person out front asking for help whereas before it was usually just one. Just yesterday a homeless man got into it with a worker right next to me in self checkout over trying to steal a small container of sliced up pineapple, so I just took it out of the mans hands, paid the 8 dollars, and handed it back to him. It will only get worse once SNAP benefits are cut for hundreds of millions starting May 1st. I'm newly disabled and have been unable to find work since September, but because I'm not on disability (it can take years to get approved, even with a lawyer) I will be losing all benefits at the end of the month. Regular people, working people, disabled people, homeless people, we are all being squeezed in ways we cannot cope with and it will only continue to get worse.
The following submission statement was provided by /u/madrid987:
ss: Among the changes of the 20th century, few events have transformed the world as much as the 'Green Revolution.'
Positive assessments claim that this revolution eradicated famine and supported global population growth.
As numerous critics have pointed out, the Green Revolution entailed enormous ecological and social costs. Questions regarding the sustainability of the food system have long been raised.
However, the potential vulnerability of this system has become clear as the war between the U.S. and Israel over Iran caused oil and gas prices to skyrocket and halted a significant portion of the global fertilizer trade.
In just seven weeks, the likelihood of food shortages, and even famine, striking vulnerable nations in Africa and Asia is growing.
The shock to the Gulf region can rapidly spread throughout the entire supply chain, from farm to consumer's table. Consequently, long-term disruption in the region could spread much more widely.
Deepening famine and food insecurity are inevitable consequences of military aggression in the Gulf region. This reality must become a heavy burden for a world that has understood this war solely through the narrow lens of oil price instability.
Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/1sprv1h/the_coming_global_food_crisis/oh2dut4/
My family tells me not to worry about this and go back to delivering packages for Amazon like a good worker drone and passively wait for our civilization to collapse. I'm so tired of these dark thoughts, I am autistic and my ability to function is vibes based and right now all the fucking vibes are really bad.
Do you have any access to nature/outdoors? It's the one thing that can take my mind away from everything and remind me there's still good stuff in this world, just not from humans.
The article acknowledges that food insecurity has already been a reality for some of the non-western world. Then it goes on to explain that it will get worse because of the world's reliance on using petroleum-based fertilizer. The Gulf countries that provide oil have expanded their business to also provide the nitrogen and sulfur needed for modern fertilizer. This affects everyone, but deeply affects the countries that directly rely on this supply, mostly non-western countries.
The article talks more about the intricacies of the Gulf chemical business, global markets, and other countries vulnerabilities. Some of which were hard for me to follow.
At the end, the author promotes and urges the world to switch to sustainable farming tactics to reduce petroleum reliability in farming. Although I'm not sure that will help with drought or other climate changes that bring devastation to farms.
ss: Among the changes of the 20th century, few events have transformed the world as much as the 'Green Revolution.'
Positive assessments claim that this revolution eradicated famine and supported global population growth.
As numerous critics have pointed out, the Green Revolution entailed enormous ecological and social costs. Questions regarding the sustainability of the food system have long been raised.
However, the potential vulnerability of this system has become clear as the war between the U.S. and Israel over Iran caused oil and gas prices to skyrocket and halted a significant portion of the global fertilizer trade.
In just seven weeks, the likelihood of food shortages, and even famine, striking vulnerable nations in Africa and Asia is growing.
The shock to the Gulf region can rapidly spread throughout the entire supply chain, from farm to consumer's table. Consequently, long-term disruption in the region could spread much more widely.
Deepening famine and food insecurity are inevitable consequences of military aggression in the Gulf region. This reality must become a heavy burden for a world that has understood this war solely through the narrow lens of oil price instability.
Some_Drink_5375@reddit
does is strike anyone here odd that we need a near-extinct resource (oil) to produce our food? does anyone else see the utter lunacy is that?
jazz-pier@reddit
food crises are here, they are just not evenly distributed
BeardedGlass@reddit
You'd see it much clearly if you visit the r/FridgeDetective subreddit.
People post their fridge there and everyone gets to assess and "judge" what kind of person that Redditor might be.
It's some harmless fun sub, but you can definitely see the difference between those who have the wealth to have a fridge with healthy diet and lifestyle...
Versus those who can't afford the pricey fresh produce and have no choice but to rely on factory produced processed foods that are more affordable yet VERY unhealthy. The type that can sabotage your health.
Shallow_wanderer@reddit
The plotline from The Outer Worlds about the colony's food not being able to sustain or nourish the population is starting to hit different now ngl
pippopozzato@reddit
Thomas Robert Malthus just entered the chat.
NyriasNeo@reddit
There is no food crisis if you are rich. There is already a food crisis, even without the war, about nutrition and affordability, if you are poor.
Trick-Bench-4122@reddit
Yeah a silent one not outright starvation but poor nutrition and not enough food. I don’t know why majority of people still believe we’re living in good times and that this system will last forever and things will continue to slowly improve when food prices keep rising several percent every year.
GalaxyPatio@reddit
I've reached the point where I get very (internally) upset when people excitedly share pregnancy announcements. What kind of life have they convinced themselves that their children will get to have.
Liltoesss@reddit
I got a vasectomy in 2022 and i don't regret it, it was easy and wasn't really that uncomfortable.
Since then some of my friends have had kids, and i don't know what the fuck they are thinking. I live in America and we are actively spiraling right now. Its like they believe their life will get better when its been getting worse for the past 20 years.
Its like they think it cant be them, when Ive seen educated people with tons of experience in their field laid off, lose their house/apartment and fail to find a job for 12-14 months, forcing them to uproot their lives and move back in with parents/friends/ or "lower COA area"
Shit is probably gonna be really bad at this rate, id give it 3-5 years but who knows at this point.
Lots of this shit was set in motion before i was born, and shit has been fucked for a long time. But lots of days i wish i would wake up and its 1999, im a kid again and the past 2 decades had been a bad dream.
96-62@reddit
We have more kids as life gets harder, not fewer.
hiraeth555@reddit
I have to disagree with you here- humanity has lived through some truly horrendous times. Plagues and wars and natural disasters of enormous scale and destruction.
Everyone on this subreddit is (rightly) worried about society collapsing, but if we all stop having kids, it is guaranteed to disappear anyway.
We need good people to have kids imo. Otherwise we just leave civilisation to those that don’t care.
GalaxyPatio@reddit
I guess what I don't understand is, if you love a hypothetical being, why subject them to such horrendous times of enormous scale and destruction? Just to keep it going for as long as possible? Are we really just out here having kids so that we can say that humanity is sturdy as a species?
Ihaveamazingdreams@reddit
The planet only had about 2 billion people in 1925. In only a hundred years, the population has exploded to 8.3 billion people.
Imagine being worried that we aren't making enough new people, while knowing we've quadrupled the population in only 100 years.
Insanity.
hiraeth555@reddit
Population is precipitously dropping in the developed world.
Ihaveamazingdreams@reddit
Good.
It's time to find a new model besides constant population growth on a planet with limited resources. How many more billions of people will we need to add before we realize we might have too many? Maybe we shouldn't have built every developed country's future plans on a constantly increasing population of workers.
hiraeth555@reddit
It’s not good- it will be the collapse that everyone here is panicking about.
Supporting people who want to have kids to have 2, is a good thing. Let the population wind down to a manageable level.
With the rate of decline we’re seeing now, we won’t be able to maintain basic infrastructure, elder care, education, or medicine.
That is not a good thing
Ihaveamazingdreams@reddit
The collapse that everyone here is panicking about is attributable to our population explosion, the climate change that's being caused by all the people and a limited amount of resources.
The small picture collapse that you're fretting about is the collapse of capitalism-based economies that require continuous growth.
The big picture collapse is the one where we don't have enough resources for our enormous population and climate change warms our planet so much that disasters are killing people daily.
The thing you're worried about is small potatoes compared to the real collapse.
hiraeth555@reddit
Didn’t really want to get into some debate.
I agree that there is catastrophic climate change occurring.
But if you’ve decided not to have kids anyway, why worry?
You’ll prob live your life in reasonable comfort and there’s no descendants for you to worry about either.
So why do you even care?
Ihaveamazingdreams@reddit
I don't have my own kids, but I still have empathy for the billions of people who will suffer and die due to climate change disasters. I'm not sure why you'd clock me as someone who doesn't care about the rest of the world when I already pointed out my concern for the planet.
One of the biggest issues I have with this whole freakout over the declining birthrate in developed countries is that it's very xenophobic in nature.
The overall birthrate in the world is still increasing, yet Americans, Europeans, Japanese, South Koreans will all scrunch up their faces and go "Well no, we don't want more of those people." It's pretty disgusting.
I'm honestly ready for them to lose out if they can't accept that people from all countries are just as valid and good as the people from their own.
CellWrangler@reddit
I have thoroughly enjoyed this discourse. Couldn't agree more with everything you said.
imalostkitty-ox0@reddit
For the record, the population has been severely underestimated because of rural living all of the world, so it’s estimated to be somewhere between 8.3 and 9.5 billion. FACK!
hiraeth555@reddit
Because it has almost always been a tough and brutal world- it is only this past 100 years (and only in the West) that we have forgotten it.
Berlinesa77@reddit
Speak for yourself? I'm in Europe and while that's a privileged place to be, and I consider myself lucky, it isn't a region that hasn't seen brutality on a large scale and for many of the past hundred years. And yet, irreversible changes to major earth systems threaten the foundations of life more than any war or natural disaster ever has. This point in time is not comparable to prior centuries.
Berlinesa77@reddit
The damage we've done to our "environment" doesn't just disappear. Think forever plastics, ocean acidification, temperatures becoming so high that plants can't grow, seasonal patterns changing so quickly that animals can't adapt. I agree with your last sentences, but on the other hand, people don't have to "have" kids i.e. bring more kids into the world. You could also be a great aunt or uncle, for instance.
Trick-Bench-4122@reddit
Actually not the kids born today but the kids born after 2040 probably much better then any other generation before them when ai replaces politics, the ones born today still have to live many years through the dark and age and will get screwed up. I predict dark age then post scarcity but not for decades.
nelsonalgrencametome@reddit
Distractions and the technology associated with them have improved exponentially while everything else gets shitty. A long enough internet blackout would probably change a more than a few minds. People see things posted or broadcast that make it look like everyone is doing fine and thriving, internally they view their own situation as a personal failure and something to be ashamed of so they keep quiet.
Trick-Bench-4122@reddit
Yeah human guilt is the problem the system did a very good job training us that way. Im not guilty about anything I’m a victim to nature for putting me in the wrong era and to the system I do goof off but only because everything is pointless and chaotic.
imalostkitty-ox0@reddit
Please do tell me about this “goofing off,” and how I myself might be able to get involved at a local level
False_Raven@reddit
Food present day holds very little nutrients compared to the same food from 60 years ago
AllYallCanCarry@reddit
Source?
DivaExMachina666@reddit
The Dorito Effect by Mark Schatzker
CellWrangler@reddit
Thanks for the recommendation, this sounds like a great book. Just placed a hold for it at my library.
AllYallCanCarry@reddit
Doritos, which didn't exist 60 years ago, have less nutritional value today?
Any data on potatoes, beef, grain, or other actual foods losing nutritional value recently.
Big_D_904@reddit
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=food+nutrition+today+vs+1970
AllYallCanCarry@reddit
Hey genius, it brought no studies up.
Big_D_904@reddit
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10969708/
This was the 4th result for me
AllYallCanCarry@reddit
Thank you. My vpn may have hurt my results.
Big_D_904@reddit
Cheers guy
DruidicMagic@reddit
Who cares about nutritional value when there are profits to be made!
littlepup26@reddit
I live in a major city in the US and while "panhandling" outside of shops has always been common it is worse than ever now. Every time I go to the grocery store there's more than one person out front asking for help whereas before it was usually just one. Just yesterday a homeless man got into it with a worker right next to me in self checkout over trying to steal a small container of sliced up pineapple, so I just took it out of the mans hands, paid the 8 dollars, and handed it back to him. It will only get worse once SNAP benefits are cut for hundreds of millions starting May 1st. I'm newly disabled and have been unable to find work since September, but because I'm not on disability (it can take years to get approved, even with a lawyer) I will be losing all benefits at the end of the month. Regular people, working people, disabled people, homeless people, we are all being squeezed in ways we cannot cope with and it will only continue to get worse.
SeVenMadRaBBits@reddit
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imalostkitty-ox0@reddit
I thought that was a Super Mario 64 coin for a second, then I realized it was a fuck spez award.
Good on you, my brain might be fried 🍳
SeVenMadRaBBits@reddit
The rich wont feel it unless the poor make them.
BayouGal@reddit
There are famines with people starving to death today in parts of Africa & the Middle East
StatementBot@reddit
The following submission statement was provided by /u/madrid987:
ss: Among the changes of the 20th century, few events have transformed the world as much as the 'Green Revolution.'
Positive assessments claim that this revolution eradicated famine and supported global population growth.
As numerous critics have pointed out, the Green Revolution entailed enormous ecological and social costs. Questions regarding the sustainability of the food system have long been raised.
However, the potential vulnerability of this system has become clear as the war between the U.S. and Israel over Iran caused oil and gas prices to skyrocket and halted a significant portion of the global fertilizer trade.
In just seven weeks, the likelihood of food shortages, and even famine, striking vulnerable nations in Africa and Asia is growing.
The shock to the Gulf region can rapidly spread throughout the entire supply chain, from farm to consumer's table. Consequently, long-term disruption in the region could spread much more widely.
Deepening famine and food insecurity are inevitable consequences of military aggression in the Gulf region. This reality must become a heavy burden for a world that has understood this war solely through the narrow lens of oil price instability.
Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/1sprv1h/the_coming_global_food_crisis/oh2dut4/
Kazuma_Megu@reddit
Link is dead for me.
UnravelTheUniverse@reddit
My family tells me not to worry about this and go back to delivering packages for Amazon like a good worker drone and passively wait for our civilization to collapse. I'm so tired of these dark thoughts, I am autistic and my ability to function is vibes based and right now all the fucking vibes are really bad.
03263@reddit
Do you have any access to nature/outdoors? It's the one thing that can take my mind away from everything and remind me there's still good stuff in this world, just not from humans.
Liltoesss@reddit
Extremely good advice. Enjoying nature, animals, and cannabis has kept me sane these past years since covid.
It makes me upset that i spend so much time working to keep a roof over my head because i would do it more.
UnravelTheUniverse@reddit
Yes, and you are right it's pretty much the only thing that helps.
GloriousDawn@reddit
"Now the world must act" ? Seriously ?
Who started this war unprovoked ? Remind me please ?
And everyone else is supposed to foot the bill while that guy and his cronies blatantly skim another billion off the oil futures market ?
Curious-Row2410@reddit
Americans will engage in whatever mental gymnastics are necessary to pretend 70% of them aren't responsible for this.
roblewk@reddit
I kinda blame trump for this war. shhh
MeepersToast@reddit
Yup. All roads lead to food insecurity
Climate change -> less farmable land -> food insecurity
War -> less fertilizer -> food insecurity
AI -> unemployment -> food insecurity
What else?
LovelyIsabel@reddit
The article acknowledges that food insecurity has already been a reality for some of the non-western world. Then it goes on to explain that it will get worse because of the world's reliance on using petroleum-based fertilizer. The Gulf countries that provide oil have expanded their business to also provide the nitrogen and sulfur needed for modern fertilizer. This affects everyone, but deeply affects the countries that directly rely on this supply, mostly non-western countries.
The article talks more about the intricacies of the Gulf chemical business, global markets, and other countries vulnerabilities. Some of which were hard for me to follow.
At the end, the author promotes and urges the world to switch to sustainable farming tactics to reduce petroleum reliability in farming. Although I'm not sure that will help with drought or other climate changes that bring devastation to farms.
Sapient_Cephalopod@reddit
people be looking at these headlines and thinking 'nahh this doesn't concern me' my brother in christ you are next in line
Slamtilt_Windmills@reddit
They figured out how to commoditize famine, its called food insecurity
postconsumerwat@reddit
people don't care... except for another notch of whatever on their 'belt.'
madrid987@reddit (OP)
ss: Among the changes of the 20th century, few events have transformed the world as much as the 'Green Revolution.'
Positive assessments claim that this revolution eradicated famine and supported global population growth.
As numerous critics have pointed out, the Green Revolution entailed enormous ecological and social costs. Questions regarding the sustainability of the food system have long been raised.
However, the potential vulnerability of this system has become clear as the war between the U.S. and Israel over Iran caused oil and gas prices to skyrocket and halted a significant portion of the global fertilizer trade.
In just seven weeks, the likelihood of food shortages, and even famine, striking vulnerable nations in Africa and Asia is growing.
The shock to the Gulf region can rapidly spread throughout the entire supply chain, from farm to consumer's table. Consequently, long-term disruption in the region could spread much more widely.
Deepening famine and food insecurity are inevitable consequences of military aggression in the Gulf region. This reality must become a heavy burden for a world that has understood this war solely through the narrow lens of oil price instability.