Note: Just Kansas alone, produces enough wheat to provide five loaves of bread for every human on earth. That’s a month’s supply of food for everyone on earth.
Then add in the rest of the midwest farm belt...
But that requires fossil fuel to power the big machines, and more machines to get that grain to market, to the cities, etc.
If you want massive famine all over the world, just make it impossible to raise cattle, wheat, corn, chickens, hogs, etc. etc.
Look! Today it’s corn tomorrow it’s barley and hops. These buttheads are dangerous. Only things corn should be used for is food and whiskey. Barley and hops for beer. “Whiskey for my men and beer for my horses” as Willie would say.
Ocasio-Cortez has said that we have to make changes in agriculture. Presumeably part of that, is banning the use of fossil fuels in farming and ranching.
If people like her get her way, we will indeed be facing food shortages and famine. People like her are dangerous. It’s easy for people like her, to sit around and spew out pablum about fossil fuels hurting the planet, but not ever thinking through the consequences of their pablum policy proposals.