Peter S. Goodman
speaker
737 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 10 Jun
Peter S. Goodman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Thanks for having me.
Well, first of all, the price of energy goes so far beyond putting gas in your car, right?
I mean, we've seen cooking fuel get scarce in India, in South America.
We've seen the Philippines limit the hours that people can work in office buildings to limit the cost of air conditioning.
We've seen helium, which is used by computer chip factories from Taiwan, get expensive and hard to secure.
The ripple effects of this are almost infinite.
Right.
I mean, this particular butterfly is coming out of the Strait of Hormuz, which is the conduit for something like one-fifth of the world's oil supply and something like a third of major forms of fertilizer, which affects how much food that we can grow.
And so the consequences of this particular flapping of wings are especially enormous.
Mm-hmm.
In addition to these kind of ripple effects, there are also significant issues of life and death.
And that's what I've been focusing on.
I've been looking at 60 or so countries that tend to suffer from malnutrition even in the best of times.
And every time there's a shock, we have reason to worry.
And now we have a big reason to worry because the price of food and fertilizer is going up very quickly in many parts of the world.
And we in wealthy countries decided to dismantle large parts of the international humanitarian relief system.
This is the safety net that dates all the way back to the end of World War II.
And then we in the United States and Israel decided to launch this war.
Yes.
I mean, that's a critically important part of the story, but it's far from the only part.
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