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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The Daily · The Iran War's Devastating Butterfly Effect · 10 Jun 2026 podcast

And I asked the director, quite bluntly... And then what happens to the population?

What are you gonna do?

It really brought home for me that these aid workers are now in a position where they're having to contemplate this surreal hierarchy of suffering where, you know, as one World Food Program official put it to me, we're deciding who lives today and who dies in two weeks.

Well, look, Somalia goes into this crisis especially vulnerable, but it is very much representative in that the trajectory is the same.

So in Sudan, which is widely considered the world's most dire humanitarian crisis at the moment, where you already have parts of the country in officially declared famine, well, now in Port Sudan—

the primary gateway for food aid in Sudan.

You have stuff coming in weeks later.

And then the head of UNICEF for Sudan told me it's difficult to get that stuff trucked to places that are stricken by famine because not only is the price of diesel so expensive, but the trucking companies are unwilling to take the risk of bringing their trucks into the hinterland because there are actual physical shortages of diesel fuel.

They're worried they're going to get stuck there.

So I just came back from Ivory Coast, which is one of the fastest growing economies on Earth.

This is in West Africa.

And there you have cocoa farmers who have already been suffering from dramatically reduced prices for their crops.

Now they're looking at increased prices for fertilizer, which means lower yields, lower livelihoods, and on it goes.

Look, a lot of what we're talking about here will change people's lives forever.

Now, will some of it return to normal when the Strait reopens?

Maybe some of it.

Sure, fuel prices presumably will go back down.

Fertilizer will be more available.

And food prices could come back down.

And that could have a lot of benefit.

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