The same network of sacrosanct interconnections that has brought us everything from quick mortgages to smartphones to on-demand electricity has not only filled 8 billion bellies, it has done so with the odd out-of-season avocado. That's now largely behind us. The web is failing. Just past the horizon looms a world of lower and less reliable agricultural yields, marred by less variety. A world with less energy or fewer manufactured goods is the difference between wealth and security or poverty and conflict. But a world with fewer foodstuffs is one with fewer people.
More than war, more than disease, famine is the ultimate country killer. And it is not something the human condition can adjust to quickly or easily.
-Peter Zeihan, The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
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