CIRCLE WITH A DOT

The Guardian | We’re letting big corporations gamble with our lives. Act now, or the food could run out | George Monbiot by George MonbiotThe fragility of the global food system fills me with dread – and the war with Iran has exposed just how close to collapse it is The fate of environmentalists is to spend their lives trying not to be proved right. Vindication is what we dread. But there’s one threat that haunts me more than any other: the collapse of the global food system. We cannot predict what the immediate trigger might be. But the war with Iran is just the right kind of event.Drawing on years of scientific data, I’ve been arguing for some time that this risk exists – and that governments are completely unprepared for it. In 2023, I made a submission to a parliamentary inquiry into environmental change and food security, with a vast list of references. Called as a witness, I spent much of the time explaining that the issue was much wider than the inquiry’s scope. Continue reading...Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/25/big-corporations-global-food-system-war-iran#globaleconomy #georgemonbiot #foodsystem #foodsecurity #environmentalchange

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