John Gibbons

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The Last Word with Matt Cooper · Environment: Should We Stockpile Food To Prepare For National Emergencies? · 27 Aug 2026 podcast

So these are the kind of dry things that can be stored, safely stored for years.

Now, what generally these stores are usually managed on a rotational basis.

In other words, the stock goes in and as it is moving towards its its sort of expiry date, it's uh it's sold out cheaply to the community, right?

Now, so you can rotate that through.

But it means at any given time you would keep a a a large stocks.

And by the way, people are probably wondering how what does large stocks mean?

So I did the numbers on this, and my estimate is that to feed, to provide the full calorific need.

For 5.5 million people for three months would it would require about 750,000 tons of uh food in dry storage.

Now, sounds like a lot, but it's an awful lot less than the 1.7 million tons of uh of of oil that we have in storage already.

So that's the idea, Matt.

And I would see it again as an insurance policy.

Nobody's expecting bad things to happen.

In the same way, you have fire insurance, I suspect.

your home.

You don't have fire of course you do.

You don't have fire insurance because you expect it to burn down.

You have it because you cannot afford the risk, however small, of that happening.

So this is really a a conservative risk approach, which we we're we're very short on in Ireland.

Well I'm glad they brought that up because of course, as you say, we have this uh agriculture system which has got v almost nothing to do with feeding the population of Ireland and everything to do with bulk exporting of commodities to distant markets.

So our food production system and our agriculture system is completely divorced from the needs of the Irish population, which is a bit shocking really.

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