RE: https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116232524241982831
Additional note: when foodprices rocket, that is ALMOST ALWAYS the trigger for civil unrest and revolutions. (The other is a fiscal/tax/revenue crisis, caused by government turning into rent-seeking by the rich *and* trying to fund a war simultaneously, as with the French Revolution.)
Does this look familiar to you, too?
@cstross @urlyman I am not going to try to guess the price of fertilizer a year from now internationally, but Sarah Taber @sarahtaber has covered fertilizer prices right now in the US. We are not seeing an increase but the Farm Bureau is doing everything possible to get the US government to give more money to farmers.
But she is basing this on US fertilizer prices. I would love to hear what price changes are happening outside of the US.
Charlie Stross
Paul Chernoff