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'The planting season is now,' but war in Iran has sparked a global fertilizer shortage (www.pbs.org)

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[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

And when there is a massive global heat wave this summer, as seems likely with an unusually large el nino, and there are crop failures the world over, after they have used a lot of their stockpiles, what happens then? It seems unlikely that the global oil economy will return to a stable rate any time soon.

Every fertilizer plant in Bangladesh is closed. Many in India are. I'm sure you can find further examples, or will in the next week. I agree that there are ways to mitigate this, but there are going to be famines in entire regions.