Remember what Leclerc told us: Half the global population will die.” “I know,” I muttered. “No, you don’t know,” she said. “Because it gets a lot worse.” “Worse than half of humanity dying?” “Of course,” she said. “Leclerc’s estimate assumes all the nations of the world work together to share resources and ration food. But do you think that will happen? Do you think the United States—the most powerful military force of all time—is going to sit idly by while half their population starves? How about China, a nation of 1.3 billion people that’s always on the verge of famines in the best of times?
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