David Farrar: The lunacy exposed

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Basically he makes the following points:

• Our current global population of 8+ billion people is only alive because of a supply chain infrastructure built up over the last 60 years

• The sulfuric acid that extracts phosphate (for fertilizer) from phosphate rock ores, for example, comes from pulling excess sulfur out of “sour” crude oil, we’re facing a loss of the infrastructure that keeps 8+ billion people alive on this planet.

• If you lose 25% of the global supply of these critical substances, you will sooner or later lose 25% of the global population: 2 billion people. The Persian Gulf, by the way, supplies roughly about one-third of the world’s fertilizer that traded in the global marketplace.

So the author is saying that an accidental byproduct of the Iran War could be a loss of fertiliser, which is critical to keeping 8 billion people alive.

What I want readers to focus on, is that it is official Green Party policy in NZ to ban this very same fertiliser. What is a potential disastrous byproduct of the war in Iran, is official Green Party policy.

What makes this worse is that this nihilistic lunatic policy has actually been tried in Sri Lanka. It saw:

• A 50% to 60% reduction in some crops harvest
• A 29% of tea crops – their major income earner
• A 7% reduction in overall national income
• A 20% income reduction for farmers

David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders