Comment by hedora

The fertilizer and helium shortages are unfortunate, but expensive gas has ~ doubled global demand for EVs. That’s an ecological miracle, given the idiocy of the US government. That’s probably where the good news ends though.

If spent on humanitarian aid shortfalls, the funds wasted by just the US on this war could have saved 87M lives:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/20/us-spending-on...

To put that in relative terms: WWII killed ~85M globally; 2/3 of them were civilians. So that’s killed 150% as many as the war crimes committed by Stalin, Hitler and the Japanese occupation of China combined.

I don’t mean to minimize the famine that’s definitely coming later this year.