Opinion: Hunger Games ? Russo-Ukrainian War Worsens Global Famine
"A global famine is not out of the question, with the worst effect of the sanctions against Russia having not even been felt yet ? on us and by us."
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Hyperglobalisation has killed us off! It makes us irreversibly dependent on each other on a global scale, so much so that punitive sanctions placed on a medium-sized country now have an impact on production chains on the other side of the planet, ending up working against those who decreed them.
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The Russia campaign is of course having the worst effect on Russia itself, except that Russia is still powerful ? not so much by dint of its nuclear arms ? but by dint of the rest of the world?s dependence on it. Fifty or so countries spread across the globe consume Russian and Ukrainian wheat and some of which like Turkey and Egypt rely critically on it with nearly 65 per cent of their needs coming from these two war-torn producers. We have now, therefore, understood that Russia and Ukraine, but also Belarus, are essential for our food provision and that long-term disruptions will clearly have disastrous consequences. A global famine is not out of the question, with the worst effect of the sanctions against Russia having not even been felt yet ? on us and by us.
Wheatfield in the east of Ukraine. Im...
The post Opinion: Hunger Games ? Russo-Ukrainian War Worsens Global Famine appeared first on LUXUO.
Image: Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times
Hyperglobalisation has killed us off! It makes us irreversibly dependent on each other on a global scale, so much so that punitive sanctions placed on a medium-sized country now have an impact on production chains on the other side of the planet, ending up working against those who decreed them.
READ MORE: Choosing Sides: Watch brands react on Russian Invasion of Ukraine
The Russia campaign is of course having the worst effect on Russia itself, except that Russia is still powerful ? not so much by dint of its nuclear arms ? but by dint of the rest of the world?s dependence on it. Fifty or so countries spread across the globe consume Russian and Ukrainian wheat and some of which like Turkey and Egypt rely critically on it with nearly 65 per cent of their needs coming from these two war-torn producers. We have now, therefore, understood that Russia and Ukraine, but also Belarus, are essential for our food provision and that long-term disruptions will clearly have disastrous consequences. A global famine is not out of the question, with the worst effect of the sanctions against Russia having not even been felt yet ? on us and by us.
Wheatfield in the east of Ukraine. Im...
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