In the past, we would always talk about famine, war and pestilence in hypothetical terms, but now they have become clear and present dangers.

For weeks, I have been warning that the period of relative stability that we have been enjoying this summer would soon be over.  The fall is almost here, and winter is coming.  Of course the difficulties that we will be facing as 2022 rolls into 2023 will just be the beginning of our problems.  The years in front of us aren't going to look anything like the years that we have just been through, and many will be absolutely shocked by how fast conditions change.

Today, I went to the grocery store and I was horrified by how much prices have risen.

But these prices will look like bargains six months from now.

As I have carefully been documenting, we are in the beginning stages of the worst global food crisis that any of us have ever seen.

Right now, crops are being devastated by endless drought all over the globe.  China is currently experiencing the worst drought that it has witnessed in recorded history, the western half of the U.S. is in the midst of the worst multi-year megadrought in 1,200 years, and Europe is enduring the worst drought that it has been through in at least 500 years.