Comments by "Louis Giokas" (@louisgiokas2206) on "Deglobalization's Impact on Global Food Exports || Peter Zeihan" video.

I was waiting to see how much the shortfall would be. So, Peter projects one third. The other important statistic in this calculation is how much we produce now. My understanding is that the world produces about twice the number of calories as humanity requires. Another statistic that is important is that the world population is set to peak soon (if it already hasn't) and then decline naturally. Then there is the caloric input needed by humans. There is lots of talk about 2,000 calories per day. Let's go with that. I was talking to the manager of a high-end healthy eating establishment once. This was premade stuff that just needed microwaving. They had a small seating area, but most of their customers took the stuff home. It was good, healthy and expensive. Why do I mention all this? Because here was someone talking about the details of food, and the two touch points for caloric intake they had were 1,800 and 1,500 calories. Their customers were foodies that had the money and health consciousness to get basically anything they desired. It is important because that caloric difference is between 10% and 25% of the recommendations. The recommendations on food from our governments are wrong in both makeup and quantity. It is a scam and the motivations for the scam are obvious on so many levels. Look at the health problems we deal with. There are lots more people dealing with obesity than with starvation in today's world. The problem with food is what it has always been. Distribution. I remember when I was a kid (half a century ago) reading about starvation in Africa. There was plenty of food available in the developed world but getting it to the people there and distributing it was the cause of the suffering. We will see the age of imperialism come back.
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