Peter S. Goodman
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737 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 10 Jun
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It's another societal shock.
That's right.
What happens when a state sinks into absolute dysfunction?
That can play out a lot of different ways.
They're generally not good.
And it's not tenable for the rest of the world to pretend that it's living in some sort of giant gated community.
Gated community as national security policy tends not to work very well.
Right.
So, you know, I was already thinking about places I could go to illustrate the crisis from rising fertilizer prices and malnutrition.
And I was talking to aid groups around the world.
And then I had a conversation with Mercy Corps, this American aid organization that I had known from traveling with them in Nigeria to write about the fertilizer crisis back in 2023.
And they suggested that I think about going to Somalia.
Hmm.
a country that is especially susceptible to climate change, drought.
My reflexive take on that was that Somalia was not a place on my map of potential places to do reporting because it's traditionally thought of as very difficult, dangerous.
But they suggested that it would be possible.
And as I saw how dependent Somalia was on not only imported food, but also imported fertilizer coming out of the Strait of Hormuz, I realized that it was the perfect place to see up close this grave test of what one person put it to me as the post-Aid era.
Well, it's important to say right at the top that Somalia was already in a very precarious situation before the war started.
There was, you know, as I mentioned before, a severe drought.
There had been several droughts in a row.
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