Re:Where are all the containers? The global shortage explained
by mrzimmerman on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @10:09PM
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Also, various grains are considered essential elements of national security and are stockpiled and protected like many other resources.
It’s ludicrous to think that just because there is more global trade all governments have given up on their own interests and are just subject to the wills of “globalism”.
Re:Where are all the containers? The global shortage explained
by arminiusreturns on Thursday March 25, 2021 @01:31AM
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What is ludicrous is ignoring the dangers of both approaches, globalism and antiglobalism, with hand wavy strawmen. There are real issues, and while gp might not have articulated them well, your dismissal reads as a cliche response and not a genuine point of discussion or call for debate.
Re:Where are all the containers? The global shortage explained
by JKCalhoun on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @11:16PM
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> The nice thing about grain elevators is they’re fairly easy to spot from a distance.
Agree. But how do we know they're full? ;-)
Re:Where are all the containers? The global shortage explained
by gnud on Thursday March 25, 2021 @05:33AM
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Well, the UK seems to be OK, but Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, for example, are way below caloric self-sufficiency [0].
According to this hard-to-read map [1], Ireland, Italy, Spain and Portugal also seems to be below 1.
0: http://www.fao.org/3/i2493e/i2493e03.pdf 1: http://www.fao.org/3/i5222e/i5222e.pdf
If you think any first world nation is entirely reliant on global trade for subsistence of its populace (yes, even UK) you’ve been playing far too much Civilization. Now if you want to talk about the impact of globalism on crop markets and by extension a small operator, you have something to discuss. But you’re not saying that.