Civilization? Get ready for a spanking.

[luckytroll]

Or, thank goodness for rice, and potatoes.

For many parts of the world, our civilization has been based in large part on eating grass seeds. Grain. Either we eat it, or our animals do.

To mess with grain is to shake the foundations of human civilization.

We do have stand-ins for our starch. Tubers, beans. But grass seeds are huge. A Global rice disaster would mean starvation for billions.  A wheat failure could be almost as bad for the poor.

Guess whats about to happen?

Bread is about to get rather expensive in the next decade.

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Im not particularly worried about Canadians, or even other more developed nations. We can always trade for whatever is on the market, and with friends like the Yanks, we can bomb for the rest if need be, the way they do for oil. What worries me is the people who are living at subsistence levels, and the effects this might have given the increased sensitivity of worlds markets to smaller and smaller global factors.

Its amazing what a mob of starving people can do to geopolitics. Even if they are poor starving people.