[blipvert]

Can’t remember the exact quote, but there is something in The Omen II about future wars being fought over food (Thorn corporation being involved in agriculture/fertiliser or something).

Last time that I saw it I wondered if the Ukraine conflict might be about control of the “Breadbasket of Europe” as much as anything.

[everdrive]

But of course Thomas Malthus was wrong about everything and we just keep need to growing populations.

[wak90]

It's pretty indicative of the situation that you're unironically trying to say Malthus was right about some things, actually.

[nradov]

Control over European food supplies might have been a minor factor in Putin's decision to invade Ukraine but that was secondary to establishing a greater Russian empire with defensible strategic depth. A lot of Ukraine's wheat exports went to Egypt and they have suffered significant food cost inflation due to the war.