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Fast Eddy's avatar

Liebig’s Law applies

In the UK during the first weeks of the first lockdown in 2020, we experienced a shortage of eggs. Not because hens had stopped laying, but because of a shortage of small (six and twelve) egg cartons which, it turned out, were only manufactured in three factories in all of Europe.

In September 2000, it was unexpected shortages which threatened the biggest disruptions. The inability to deliver key purifications chemicals to the water industry, for example, threatened the supply of clean drinking water, with the risk of a return of diseases like dysentery and cholera. Hospital surgical departments in some regions were forced to close because of a shortage of suture – all of the other requirements for operating were present, but without the ability to sew the patients up afterward, operations had to be cancelled.

The term cascade refers to the interconnectedness of critical infrastructure systems such as the electricity grid, fuel system, water and sewage, transport, banking, and health. A failure in any one system will relatively quickly spread to the others. For example, in the event of a blackout, such as happened in Iberia last month, the water supply will be cut to large areas of the UK because of the reliance on electric pumping.

The same goes for – among other things – filling stations, supermarket tills, and ATMs. A loss of fuel resulting from oil shortages might cascade less rapidly. But as we saw in September 2000, once the supply of key components for critical infrastructure cannot be delivered, the cascade accelerates.

https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2025/06/20/liebigs-law-applies/

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Kulm the Status Quo's avatar

Trump was reinstalled to prevent an Atlas Shrugged situation and to 'manage' the fall orderly, not haphazardly as intended by the Democrats.

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