'Food security timebomb': a visual guide to the Gulf fertiliser blockade

[SamuelTheThird]

The waterway’s near-total shipping blockade is a “food security timebomb”, the head of the International Rescue Committee, David Miliband, said this week, adding: “The window to avert a massive global hunger crisis is rapidly closing.”

“Fertilisers are the No 1 issue of concern today,” according to the World Trade Organization, while the UN World Food Programme says the total number of people facing acute levels of hunger could hit record numbers this year if the destabilising conflict continues.

So how worried should we be?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/03/visual-guide-gulf-fertiliser-blockade

[RockRaven]

1. Food production is seasonal, time waits for no one, and war follows famine.

We should be beyond worried.

[IcyPeas]

2. I'll take "things ya should've thought about before starting a war"...

for a thousand Alex.

And if there was an intelligent administration running this shitshow they would've analyzed every possible scenario. But a fox news weekend host is running this war. I repeat a fox news weekend host is running this war. Mayday mayday!

But, alas, they are all too eager to please a draft dodging buffoon.

Act now... think later... is not really a good strategery.

[Justice matters.]

3. Millions, if not billions, will die of starvation.

Thanks... gullible magats and all those ignorants who didn't care to vote: "bon appetit"