00:01:52.840So there's something else much deeper going on here with your tokenized money supply and stable coins is going to be tied to some sort of digital rationing card.
00:02:01.660And it would be so easy to integrate all those in one fell swoop instead of trying to piecemeal them out where, oh, here's your digital ID for your bank account.
00:02:11.980OK, jump through all those hoops and hurdles.
00:02:14.000OK, now we need a digital for your tokenized home ownership.
00:03:49.020But until then, I want to see if we can get an overhead shot of this graphic, or maybe you have the graphic, of the sulfur crisis that is unfolding right now.
00:05:07.660So you actually have to remove the sulfur from the oil in order to be able to refine the oil.
00:05:12.520But there's also sour gas, which is a natural gas like what comes out of Qatar with Qatar energy, where you have to remove sulfur from that gas.
00:05:22.040That's part of the whole gasification train system.
00:05:24.900So you end up with this essentially a waste product of excess sulfur, but then sulfur itself becomes the input for sulfuric acid, which is probably the most important molecule in all of industry around the world.
00:05:39.680but also then inputs into fertilizer itself, into agriculture,
00:05:46.140but also the sulfuric acid, as you know, David,
00:05:48.800is used to extract phosphates from phosphate ore
00:05:52.960in order to create phosphate-based fertilizers.
00:05:55.760So let me just put an end cap on that, David,
00:05:58.960and I'd love you to walk the audience through this.
00:06:01.920But the sulfur comes from the oil and the gas.
00:06:05.300That's why we have so much sulfur above ground.
00:06:07.580So when oil and gas are disrupted, sulfur is disrupted, and eventually global food supplies and fertilizer and agriculture begin to dwindle because of that scarcity.
00:06:19.260So David, what would you like to add to that, or did I say anything wrong you want to correct or add to? Go for it.
00:06:25.900yeah everything you spoke about there is correct and i have some maps here of global production
00:06:32.260of phosphate rock because if we can't get it from oil refining or natural gas production
00:06:37.640we're going to have to go old school and start digging it out and go back to the 1800s guano
00:06:42.500mining but you have to think about are we going to be in sedimentary rock digging it out and i
00:06:47.700have the two locations with the most phosphate rock on the planet literally need to go back to
00:06:52.200mining again and dig it out and then process that out of the host rock, sandstone for a better term.
00:06:59.120Morocco and China are the two big dogs with all the phosphate rock. Now, when you're talking about
00:07:05.520the pile of yellow dust out of that Caspian Sea Basin, Kazakhstan has a huge amount along with
00:07:11.220Canada and so does Tajikistan. Those were the two bigs that I found that have some millions of tons
00:07:16.760laying around that they could add to the world's supply. Other than that, once that easy low-hanging
00:07:22.000fruit's gone we're right back at digging it out of the ground and can you imagine the energy used
00:07:27.200for that if they're going to thermal extract it we do we even have the acids i know they use
00:07:32.620nitric acid sometime for extraction we don't have any of that i mean the whole you know gulf is
00:07:38.260shut down so all the base acids coming out to even get us to that point we're back at square
00:07:44.380one again we're literally going back into pioneering days again right right and if we
00:07:50.400move backwards in time in terms of fertilizer you know mining slash extraction then we can't
00:07:58.800support the eight billion person population that is on the planet today or at least that's you know
00:08:05.040those are the official numbers that we're told whether or not they're accurate let's just say
00:08:08.260it's roughly eight billion before these fertilizers were created like this including nitrogenous
00:08:14.560fertilizers, you know, the planet can only support maybe 4 billion people. And if you have to go back
00:08:21.440to doing it the hard way before, let's say, the automation of farming with farming equipment and
00:08:27.460diesel engines and tractors, you might only be able to support 2 billion people, which would
00:08:32.440be a 75% die-off of the current population. So David, how much risk is there that we're going
00:08:40.260to be shifting back in that direction where 8 billion people simply cannot be supported
00:08:45.880by the inputs that are necessary for agriculture to function.
00:08:53.380Until this scarcity restructuring finishes, and as we go through this fourth turning on
00:09:01.280this iteration here of the declining phase, everything that we've seen destroyed across
00:09:06.880of the Middle East is going to stay offline on purpose until they need to rebuild it for
00:09:12.060something in the future. And that's not going to be next week or next year. It's going to be
00:09:15.960sometime in the future. It will be built a decade again from now when some sort of impetus to
00:09:21.760restart the economy. We're coming into the contraction phase right now. And if you want
00:09:26.880to walk back in time, I'll take you back to Ukraine back when the Holmodor occurred. This0.91
00:09:32.800is when the real jumps in farming came, and the wheat farmers had all this new technology,
00:09:38.980you know, horse-driven with belts to try to, you know, scythe things versus doing it by hand.0.89
00:09:43.920They became the wealthiest people in Ukraine, and because of that, well, then the Bolsheviks0.85
00:09:48.720came in and were like, look at them. They're the rich ones. They're causing you all the problems.
00:09:52.380But if you really want to study mechanization jumps in technology on how that put, we can still
00:09:58.760do it with horses, but I don't know a lot of people that have horses. But we can bring it up
00:10:02.740substantially of what even they had in the 1930s. And I would encourage you to look at Ukraine
00:10:07.660and how they absolutely just went from mediocre wheat production to the world's largest wheat
00:10:13.500producers by using this new tech that they had. It beat the United States for production for a
00:10:18.760few years until, well, that was wiped out at the knees as other political factors occurred there.
00:10:24.300But there are going to be a chaos phase as well.
00:10:28.280Like the chaos phase is a needed part of the transition that we're going through right now.
00:10:38.920You know, if they're going to have a problem growing food down there because of the civil unrest in Brazil, is that another, you know, check the box.
00:10:44.840We took another area of production offline, Ukraine's offline.
00:10:48.340Everywhere you look, we've got 70-year lows in wheat in America.
00:10:51.160And it's just, it goes on and on and on.
00:10:54.300So the chaos phase will be used at some point.
00:10:57.440And when it does, is the food going to be used as a weapon like it has through history?
00:11:03.240Well, I'm glad you that's the question.
00:11:04.860Somebody's going to fight for that food.
00:11:06.000You say only half the productions there, then half the people are going to eat.
00:11:10.100And today's world's not really a kind world.
00:14:47.140So copper and zinc mining, which not only produces copper and zinc but also produces then silver because silver is mined only really as a byproduct of mostly copper and zinc mining.
00:15:00.960But copper and zinc mining, which is necessary for a power grid infrastructure, obviously, and industry and electronics, etc., is only possible when you have sulfuric acid.
00:15:11.500And sulfuric acid is only possible when you have sulfur coming out of the oil and the gas that's being extracted out of the ground by different countries, but largely in the Persian Gulf.
00:15:20.980So, David, even if we develop like a magical energy box, you know, Mr. Fusion from Hollywood, and it could just provide endless electricity for everybody, even if that existed tomorrow, that wouldn't provide the sulfur that we need to do the mining for the copper and the zinc for industry and power transmission lines and modern electronics and computing, etc.
00:15:47.580So, you know, you're painting a picture of possible alternatives, and I agree with you, but speak to the fact that if we don't get the hydrocarbon energy coming out of the Persian Gulf, then we're not going to have the sulfur that's needed to be a base input into the rest of the economic infrastructure that you've been describing.
00:18:52.140We got the diesel and we got the jet fuel.
00:18:53.680I mean, the next thing to go is jet fuel.
00:18:55.120And they had, you know, Klaus Schwab and they were very bad of, you know, economic marauders running around the planet had forecast that we were going to fly less.
00:19:05.720And, you know, I beg the question, is the green energy a stopgap measure for a few people to have electricity while this whole thing folds in on itself and then new energy is released later?
00:19:16.520You know, it seems that this whole fossil fuel thing is being purposely taken offline one slow turn every single day or week.
00:19:24.240Because, you know, bring it back home here to America. I don't know if anybody saw the news, but the Quaker Oats facility in Iowa, it's the world's largest Quaker Oats facility burned today and is offline.
00:19:37.580And in the same day, Pacific Seafood in Newport, Oregon, also one of the largest seafood processors in America, burned and all their freezers are out of order.
00:19:45.920So we lost two of the largest food producers in America today as well.
00:19:51.240So it's food and energy are continually knocked off line.0.82
00:19:55.220And I saw some new laws coming out of India being over here in Asia.
00:19:58.720They were now trying to pass laws where as a reporter, you're not allowed to write about somebody unless that person gives the OK that you're allowed to write about them.
00:20:07.980So investigative journalism, as you know, would be dead in India since you put the headline up there.
00:20:25.860Yeah, Adapt 2030 is the YouTube channel.
00:20:27.760The Civilization Cycle Podcast is the longer format there, and CivilizationCycle.com is the website.
00:20:36.920It seems that we're at this crucial point right now where everything had been planned.
00:20:41.320We're coming on a multiple cycles overlaying on top of themselves, not only the 80 year where you consider fourth turning cycle, but then we come into solar cycles on the 400 year cycles, which is five of those fourth turning cycles at a 400 year time period of a grand solar minimum and strange solar activity and strange behavings on the planet, cloud cells and jet streams going out of their normal flows.
00:21:06.680and i'm just wondering how this all weaves together because you couldn't come clean to
00:21:10.520the populace like hey we knew this cycle was going to dent into food production but keep paying your
00:21:15.320taxes in and keep investing but then all these things are coming right now that are just taking
00:21:19.700the knees out of our agricultural production all right in in the timeline of solar driven
00:21:26.220disturbances as well in food production so right there's something else much deeper going on here
00:21:31.320and that's what i try to get into and you as well i mean your research is so deep and you know on
00:21:36.520the on the technical side of things as well i follow your work incredibly you know that's why
00:21:40.280i was looking up some of the articles here today before i came on oh yeah it's just there's
00:21:45.220something else happening here that's not we're not seeing the complete picture i don't think
00:21:49.780well um thanks for that and if people you know want to check out my articles of course
00:21:54.760naturalnews.com is the site that i founded and that's where you'll find my infographics but
00:21:59.740But to our producers here, can you pull up, when was the population on Earth 4 billion people, roughly half of today?
00:22:08.480I think that was right around 1971 or 72 or something like that.
00:22:13.700But we'll let them pull up that answer and show it to the audience.
00:22:16.620And the reason I'm bringing that up is because the doubling since then has only been made possible by abundant, affordable energy.
00:22:27.700But the world population reached $4 billion around 1974 to 1975.
00:22:33.380And since then, it has exploded because of these efficiencies of energy and fertilizer derived from the energy or created with the energy inputs, both nitrogenous fertilizers and the phosphate fertilizers.
00:22:46.720If we lose that benefit of, or even partially lose it, like a 25% cut, which is roughly what the Strait of Hormuz handles in terms of exports of gas and oil and sulfur, etc., you just round it off to 25%, what does that mean for the world?
00:23:05.780Now, David, we're going to take a break, but I want you to ponder that question, and when we come back right after this break, we'll jump into your answer to that question.
00:23:13.680What does that look like? Which countries get hit first?
00:23:17.420And what are the steps that viewers of this program can take right now to prepare themselves for what's coming?
00:25:25.440He loves the, I don't know if you've ever been to Alex Jones' studio, but the air conditioning keeps it really at a nice, chill temperature, and my dog loves that.
00:25:36.200He just lays down on the floor and stays cool.
00:25:41.400He just finds a floor, typically, and he's out.
00:25:44.820But we are talking about food and the urgency of why you need to get prepared because, well, food scarcity is going to get a whole lot worse in 2027 and 28.
00:25:55.040And I'm saying that 2027 will be, this is my prediction, it will be known as the year of famine.
00:26:02.120And I'm not saying that Americans are going to be eating each other, although our mutual friend, David Michael Jan, he has predicted cannibalism will occur in the United States.
00:26:12.620I hope we don't see that because my question to him was, who's going to get eaten?
00:26:16.020You know, it's my number one question.
00:26:18.360I hope we don't see cannibalism in the U.S.,
00:26:21.200but we will most certainly see starvation and famine around the world.
00:26:26.940So, David, before the break, you know, I asked you to ponder that question.
00:26:31.800What say you about the duration of how long this is going to last?
00:26:37.600I have a chart here that I was lucky enough to find earlier
00:26:41.280when I was surfing around from the World Trade Organization
00:26:44.160and AXS Marine, they show in January of 2026, 2,960 ships full of fertilizer left during the
00:26:55.240month of January through the Strait of Hormuz. October, zero. Yeah, now if that puts it into
00:27:04.820perspective, and even last month in September, September to October was zero, and then also
00:27:09.180october to present is zero so for the last two months there's been zero uh fertilizer shipments
00:27:15.880coming out of there and there were nearly three thousand per month prior to this so you have to
00:27:19.880think about that's bad who could come up with the most ingenious ways to create fertilizer as we did
00:27:26.840in the olden days and when i say that i am talking about any think about the fertilizer handbook you
00:27:33.680know how would you create fertilizer on a large enough scale for you on your fit with your families
00:27:38.620for your own needs in your home garden.
00:27:41.640But then you're going to have to scale it to a community
00:27:43.640and then you're going to have to scale it to a state
00:27:45.480and then we'll have to scale it to a national level.0.90
00:30:46.460You know, the microbial life of the soil is gone.
00:30:50.280The trees have been clear-cut to make room for soybean crops, for GMOs, and mass spraying of glyphosate and other pesticides and herbicides.
00:30:58.880To take that and then make it into permaculture regenerative farming, that's a multi-year process.
00:44:43.780And, you know, as I was doing some videos about that, the media was saying about 300
00:44:48.000supermarkets were affected, but it turned out to be about 700 supermarkets.
00:44:51.860So I don't know why they downplayed that.
00:44:53.520But the online supermarket ordering for, let me see here, Carefor, Neto, Cooperative, Intermarch, Monoprix, and then if we come in here to the United States, Food Lion, Giant, Stop and Shop, and then their parent company, Ahold de Hayes, all went offline.
00:45:19.420But the way that people were looking saying, I am just going to order online.
00:45:22.820Like these days are coming to an end where this convenience of using the net to be able to get your food supply to your house, this is being turned off also.
00:45:32.680I can't, the gravity of the situation here on relying on all of this internet ordering things for food, you're really going to have to start to grab this and bring it in and get it real close to you and, you know, start harnessing this and bringing it much closer on your food sovereignty.
00:45:48.360because the way this was a wake-up call too,
00:46:16.660The military bases are being told to have 90 days, but the people will just be screwed.
00:46:22.480Like you said, the refrigerators and freezers will all fail except for those very few people that have solar systems or energy backup systems, which is a very tiny number.
00:46:33.060And overall, the people are just going to end up losing their food.
00:46:36.820And then you hear people, even Elon Musk, talking about, well, we're going to have universal high income.
00:46:42.440okay but you can print dollars but you can't print food man you can't print calories you know
00:46:50.720so it doesn't you you can throw dollars all over the place even trump's like five thousand dollars
00:46:54.940you know if the gop wins the election that doesn't create sulfur man it doesn't create
00:46:59.940food it doesn't grow more potatoes like you can flood the country with dollars people can still
00:47:05.620freaking starve flooded with dollars you know hyperinflation i mean weimar germany wheelbarrows
00:47:12.420of dollars to get a loaf of bread i mean i'm not saying that we're there yet but we're moving in
00:47:17.200that direction you know what i mean david unfortunately i do and you have been anybody
00:47:24.480listening out here thank you so much for spending your valuable time listening to this because i
00:47:27.860hope you can then share it with somebody else close to you in the next day or two and start
00:47:32.640to get a plan together for you and your family or your friends or whoever you're closest to that's
00:47:37.440around and you're very you know top five people you're always communicating with or being with
00:47:41.880because it's going to take something like this in a resilient form to be able to get together
00:47:47.140with a local, you know, click or group of your own peers. And then also people they might know
00:47:53.000before long, you got 20, 25 people being able to do something together versus just one or two over
00:47:58.500here. Time is short on this. I don't know how short it is exactly. I can't give you a date or
00:48:04.140a time, but things are evolving much more rapidly of the turnoff of our food supply, not only
00:48:10.700locally here in america with the destruction of our you know freezers and the processing facilities
00:48:16.780but then overseas and you know we got all these online hacks that are you know devastating our
00:48:21.800food supply around the world it's just going on and on and on everywhere at the same time
00:48:27.240overwhelming we're about to wrap up the show give us your website again please
00:48:30.900civilizationcycle.com and the adapt 2030 channel on youtube and also the civilization cycle podcast
00:48:38.740anywhere podcast or hosted across the net okay great i i love your videos david and you know
00:48:45.620it's been a while since we have talked but i'm really glad thank you for taking the time
00:48:49.660to join us here today uh i'm mike adams of course on x i'm health ranger if you want to follow my
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