The Crisis Report — 05
Addendum to my last piece.
So, after writing my last article I got a lot of feedback. I have added an addendum to that piece to address that feedback. It’s a large addendum. Longer than the piece actually.
I know that many people who have already read The Crisis Report — 04 would never see this additional information, which is a shame. I think it adds a lot of context to what I said and provides a bigger view of what’s happening.
For those readers, here is the addendum.
ADDENDUM 061022
There has been some questions and push-back on this piece that I want to address. I want to start by saying thank you to everyone who commented. I truly appreciate your feedback.
Issue #1 — What does it mean when I say the world’s cushion is ten days?
Several people have asked about this number. It is a very interesting rough estimate of global food production that does not include stockpiles.
It works like this. The authors of the paper take the reports of everything produced in a year, subtract everything that gets used, whatever is leftover is “the cushion” between what we produce and what we need.
In 1999 it was 116+ days.
