[HN Gopher] 'A perfect storm': supply chain crisis could blow wo...
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       'A perfect storm': supply chain crisis could blow world economy off
       course
        
       Author : HiroProtagonist
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2021-10-02 19:31 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
        
       | KozmoNau7 wrote:
       | Maybe, just maybe we should take a long hard look at just how
       | fragile and easy to topple all of our supply chains are, and
       | actually _do something_ to build in more resilience, to better
       | weather adverse conditions.
       | 
       | With how the climate is changing, we are only going to see more
       | and more instability and disturbances to production and shipping
       | in the future, due to climate refugees and unrest.
       | 
       | We've played a dangerous game of brinkmanship and now we're
       | paying the price.
        
         | josephcsible wrote:
         | > how fragile and easy to topple all of our supply chains are
         | 
         | I'd say that our supply chains are pretty resilient if toppling
         | them takes every government in the world shutting down their
         | economies and locking everyone in their houses for months, all
         | at the same time.
        
           | Red_Leaves_Flyy wrote:
           | That is not what happened though. Oil kept flowing, remember
           | the tankers with no where to port? Container ships kept
           | chugging. Cargo planes and repurposed commercial crafts kept
           | transporting. Factories kept cranking out widgets. Rampant
           | consumerism definitely took a a pause which hurt the
           | industries we all rely on to survive.
           | 
           | Industries need to reevaluate their resilience to disruption
           | and plan for the unthinkable. The feeling of schadenfreude,
           | as I recall the countless canaries enumerating the
           | consequences of fragile supply chains that no one even
           | vaguely understands, is sad and predictable.
        
             | mensetmanusman wrote:
             | People forget the lockdown was for the rich, the poor still
             | had to go work in essential positions at low pay and high
             | risk to keep the spice flowing.
        
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