I think the biggest takeaway this year is that we need to focus on people-first politics. COVID responses showed that we are largely ill-equipped to handle disasters. As global warming gets worse,...
I think the biggest takeaway this year is that we need to focus on people-first politics. COVID responses showed that we are largely ill-equipped to handle disasters. As global warming gets worse, our food supply chains are going to be disrupted more frequently. This is the most-critical supply chain since starvation will be even more disruptive than COVID.
Insuring the stability of this pipleline is going to require planning and prioritizing people over profit. No more sowing crops back into the ground to keep prices up. No more armed guards keeping hungry people from discarded food.
We're going to need global stockpiles of food on a scale never before seen. Huseholds stockpiling a month of food. Local communities stockpiling more. Gigantic national warehouses even more. Each country should be able to feed its people for a year with no crops, because we're going to hit lots of crop failures.
We need to prioritize making shelf-stable food....freeze-drying and canning. We need to ration out food now to insure sufficient supplies to do so. One way I think would be fair is to limit luxury food suppliers (restraunts) purchasing capabilities, like getting last pick from suppliers or only permitting use of near-discarded food.
It means structuring income, incentives, and taxes to prioritize these things. Harsh punishments for non-compliance. It means planned allocation of labor...less bankers and beuracrats, more workers to do useful work.
We need robust infrastructure to handle wide varieties of unpredictable weather conditions. Green energy. In-place survival shelters. Energy efficient housing, which would involve substaintial overhauls of most housing made before the 90s.
There's millions of things like this. We have billions of people who can do this work, but it is not done because it isn't more profitable than buying and selling stocks.
I don't have all the answers, but those are some off the top of my head that need addressed, and I am immensely skeptical the free market will provide.
What did you think was off about the conclusions? Was it the suggested implementation of a more powerful/independent global org monitoring emerging diseases? Or the conclusion that if a more...
What did you think was off about the conclusions? Was it the suggested implementation of a more powerful/independent global org monitoring emerging diseases? Or the conclusion that if a more deadly outbreak in eg 2030 occurred it would be a political failure since it would likely be preventable given what we now know?
I think the biggest takeaway this year is that we need to focus on people-first politics. COVID responses showed that we are largely ill-equipped to handle disasters. As global warming gets worse, our food supply chains are going to be disrupted more frequently. This is the most-critical supply chain since starvation will be even more disruptive than COVID.
Insuring the stability of this pipleline is going to require planning and prioritizing people over profit. No more sowing crops back into the ground to keep prices up. No more armed guards keeping hungry people from discarded food.
We're going to need global stockpiles of food on a scale never before seen. Huseholds stockpiling a month of food. Local communities stockpiling more. Gigantic national warehouses even more. Each country should be able to feed its people for a year with no crops, because we're going to hit lots of crop failures.
We need to prioritize making shelf-stable food....freeze-drying and canning. We need to ration out food now to insure sufficient supplies to do so. One way I think would be fair is to limit luxury food suppliers (restraunts) purchasing capabilities, like getting last pick from suppliers or only permitting use of near-discarded food.
It means structuring income, incentives, and taxes to prioritize these things. Harsh punishments for non-compliance. It means planned allocation of labor...less bankers and beuracrats, more workers to do useful work.
We need robust infrastructure to handle wide varieties of unpredictable weather conditions. Green energy. In-place survival shelters. Energy efficient housing, which would involve substaintial overhauls of most housing made before the 90s.
There's millions of things like this. We have billions of people who can do this work, but it is not done because it isn't more profitable than buying and selling stocks.
I don't have all the answers, but those are some off the top of my head that need addressed, and I am immensely skeptical the free market will provide.
Excellent article. Conclusions are a bit off imo but the rest is really good.
What did you think was off about the conclusions? Was it the suggested implementation of a more powerful/independent global org monitoring emerging diseases? Or the conclusion that if a more deadly outbreak in eg 2030 occurred it would be a political failure since it would likely be preventable given what we now know?
I don't disagree with the conclusions, necessarily, but they're not really supported by the rest of the article.