War at Sea Threatens the Global Family Table #
Qu Dongyu stood in Rome on Thursday and spoke of a coming silence in the world’s fields. The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization warned that a global fertilizer shortage, triggered by the ongoing blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, is no longer a matter of distant geopolitics. It is a direct assault on the soil that feeds us. According to the United Nations, global oil inventories have plunged by nearly five million barrels every day since March, leaving…