About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of extreme heat and economic factors on global food shortages and crop losses.

Send us Fan Mail Peace with Iran is over, according to President Trump, so the price of fuel rises again, and the world’s stock markets head downwards. Let’s just say the economists are not predicting anything good from this reversal. However, the real threat is fertilizer and food shortages, which, when added to the impacts of extreme heat right now, along with the kicking from a super El Niño, should lead us to expect massive crop losses worldwide, and this will be a reality we’ll all under...

People in this episode

Host: Andrea T Edwards

Topics covered

• politics
• economics
• climate change
• food shortages
• global markets

Keywords

• fuel prices
• stock markets
• crop losses
• fertilizer shortages
• El Niño

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: economists

Places: Iran, worldwide

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