Comments by "" (@orboakin8074) on "Will the World Starve this Winter?" video.

When I watch your videos, I get partly black-pilled, frightened and a little white-pilled at the end. I have no doubt the world is in for some turbulent (or as the Chinese say, "interesting") times but I have a good feeling most of us will make it and it will be grueling and hard but necessary. Heck! My grandparents and my great-grandmother, along with my parents and their respective families, made it through the colonial era of Nigeria, our civil war, military juntas, the cold war, and even I made it through the 2000s, the great recession, the SARS, Ebola, Avian flu pandemics, and much more. We humans are a stubborn and resilient species and many of us have experienced so serious stuff and I am damn sure we will survive what's coming, Amen.😊😊
939
Yeah, this comment of yours explains it well. For many of us in Africa (specifically sub-Saharan Africa), there will be an increase in food prices and cost of living but as for mass starvation, not really except for North Africa and maybe parts of north-east Africa due to geographic and climate differences. Heck! During the great recession of 2008, in Nigeria (my country) we were largely immune form the negative effects due to the limited scale of our economy in terms of global financial involvement and also due to our government implementing food reserve plans and farming methods that made us not too heavily reliant on fertilizer imports. On the flip side, countries like Tunisia and Libya had food security issues.
25
@lupusalbus3795 Yeah, the Rhodesia stuff is one of those bitter ironies of African history. Yes, the government was pretty oppressive in some ways but under them, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) was the bread basket of Africa with mechanized farming and increasing economic output and development. All that was destroyed when mugabe and his ilk ruined the economy and went on to brutally subjugate his own people and also stole the farmlands from the people who were actually good at farming and feeding the nation (the white farmers, of whom one's son was a friend of mine in the UK. great guy👍) I will not pretend that the Rhodesian government had no faults but compared to mugabe and his group, they were the better devils. Also, the "rice from the sky" program, is that the foreign aid food you are referring to? If so, I agree. Many of the famines here in Africa are largely due to government incompetence, rather than solely drought, and most of the food aid the international community sends to Africa usually ends up being used by those bastards as leverage to control their populations and further. Fortunately, more and more African countries are improving gradually. We are working to embrace the positives brought by the colonialists like liberalism, industrialization, democracy, capitalism, and national unity. For example, Botswana, Kenya, Rwanda, and even my own flawed country of Nigeria.
16
@scholaroftheworldalternatehist I agree. it certainly is an easier era compared to when my parents and grandparents were young but that doesn't mean existential threats and problems were not, and are still not, present in my part of the world. I mean, yeah, Thank God we don't have stuff like polio killing us by the score but we still have other issues.
13
11:20 How is Fritz Haber not more well known? What he did is right up there with the guy who created the polio vaccine!
13
@willfakaroni5808 😂😂Nice, friend. I hope you imagine having a sexy deep baritone-type voice! But seriously, i do have a nice voice😁
12
@LucasFernandez-fk8se Thanks, friend. I do hope you folks in America make it. Believe me when I say most of us in Africa don't want America to fail. You guys are the doing more to help the world progress than you realize.
8
@_delastern3163 Thanks, and same to you too, friend.
6
@willfakaroni5808 You wouldn't be too far off. I certainly do have a noticeable Nigerian accent but due to my child-hood experience of watching free cable and much American media on VHS tapes my parents bought for me, I actually learned how to speak English a lot better than most people and with more of a westernized accent but you can definitely tell I am Nigerian😂😂
4
@game_boyd1644 Guy, thanks. It is good to meet other Nigerians for sure👍
3
Yep, you explained it perfectly.
2
@chance2716 love and respect to you too, brother.
2
Depends on which part of Africa. If in North Africa or the Sahel 😱😱 but for us in Sub-Saharan Africa, we are usually insulated form global food fluctuations due to our own reserves, better-ish geography and climate, and agriculture methods that are, sadly, not too heavily reliant on fertilizers due to their increasing cost.
1
@SuperJibulus that's a new one🤣
1
Not really. It's pretty standard. Heck! The 2000s weren't exactly all peace and tranquility either. It's all cyclical.
1
Well, they aren't always wrong😏 I mean, in my own case, I am a Nigerian and our current president (buhari) and his ruling party (APC) are largely responsible for many of the social, economic and national problems plaguing my country today. Inflation increased more than ten-fold long before it became a global issue due to COVID and lockdowns, it was largely due to his excessive debt financing and unwarranted public spending since 2015 that has caused it. Insecurity became worse here as a result of things like his terrible immigration policies. Prior to 2016, my country was among the fastest growing economies in Africa and the world and this was during the previous party PDP) who were more liberalist and capitalist-oriented. After that things have been regressing. I know it is easy for folks in the west to downplay the effects of political policies of politicians but they do have an impact more than you folks realize.
1
@user-dn3fn3bg4l Sub- means below, beneath, or bordering on. In this case, we in Nigeria are "sub-Saharan". there is nothing wrong with this term, friend. As for your view on Nigeria, I absolutely agree that we need radical reform but I disagree that we need to split as a country. What we need is constitutional reform and for more federalism and also increased economic liberalism. As for the north, yes, their political class is largely corrupt and inept when compared to ours in the south, in terms of modernity and democratic rule. That being said, we have our own inept and incompetent and terrible leaders in the south and middle too. Also, the north does have some very good and competent politicians and statesmen and people overall too, as we do in the south. Was it not Yar'Adua (a Fulani) who improved on the work of Obasanjo (a Yoruba) and made Nigeria one of the fastest growing economies? And was it not during his tenure that national unity was increasing, security and standard of living were improving? Finally, even if we did split, how would unity be maintained among us in the south? And would other regions/countries like Togo, Benin, Cameroon, and Ghana even be willing to engage productively with us? Average consensus among most Nigerians is that we don't want to split as a nation. Nigeria can work because it already did. Post 99 after democratic rule returned and economic reforms by Obasanjo came and fixed many of our problems like high debt and inflation, our national unity increased. Once buhari and APC are gone and better people come into power, the good times will come again.
1