The best of times and the worst of times.
The war and climate disruptions are producing what may be “the largest global food crisis in modern history.”
From https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/12/01/world/russia-ukraine-war-news/the-un-seeks-51-5-billion-in-aid-driven-in-part-by-the-war-in-ukraine?smid=url-share
And yet look how wonderfully encouraging are the long term trends, as seen in the figures below (from Max Roser’s site Our World in Data https://ourworldindata.org/)