Blindboy

fertilizers because so i did the podcast last week about the the fuel protests right now i was supporting the protesters because i just support protests i was making the point that some people were like that's not how you protest if you want to protest just go out onto the street and march there's no reason to be stopping the traffic the point that i was making was

the social contract has eroded.

So back in the days, those farmers would have had a really, really strong fucking union.

So they could have protested politely and then the union would have spoken with the government and conversation would have happened.

But because all that has been dismantled, now you end up with protests that has to be really, really disruptive.

And that's because unions have disappeared, you know.

Tootless crocodiles.

That's it.

So the other thing too is...

So the, I think it was the UN did a report and they reckon that 40 million people are now at risk of famine and poverty because of the past month.

Because most of the, 20% of the world's nitrogen needs to come out, is being made in the Middle East and it needs to escape the straight of hormones.

So that's 20% of the world's nitrogen.

So that's fertilizer.

20% of that did not leave

The growing season was missed and now as a result, a load of food was not grown and prices, we're going to experience it as higher prices come September, but people in the global south would experience it as famine and death.

And that's what the UN had to say a couple of weeks ago.

And I got really pissed off and I said to myself, the fuck is going on?

Why is all that fartlers are being made there?

And the reason is unfettered capitalism.

Ireland used to have like a national fertiliser company.