Homo sapiens

Star River Year 2, April 23.

Cold wave disasters in North America continue.

The southern hemisphere, which is about to enter winter, is also entering a state of disaster.

Heavy rains poured down on the Pampas in South America. In some areas, 744 millimeters of rain fell in one day on April 22. The heavy rains caused floods.

In the Kangaroo Country, also in the southern hemisphere, most areas within its territory have not rained for 173 consecutive days, and many rivers and lakes have dried up.

In the Transvaal, the southernmost region of Africa, winter has entered early, and it has already begun to snow in some places. For example, Cape Town, the southernmost region, has experienced heavy snowfall.

As for the tropical regions, there are also many abnormal weather events, such as a general increase in precipitation in the Sahara Desert, drought in the Deccan Plateau, floods in West Pakistan, and typhoons in Southeast Asia.

This year's extreme weather around the world has had a serious impact on agricultural production everywhere.

Among the four major powers in the free world, Lucia's winter has not passed at all, causing the wheat, potatoes, sugar beets, and sunflowers in the Eastern European Plains to be unable to be sown in time.

The western coast of Europa is even more miserable, because their latitude is actually about the same as the northeastern region of Seris. They have lost the warm water vapor brought by the North Atlantic Warm Current, and the temperate maritime climate they rely on for survival has become "not warm".

Temperatures across Britain, Germany and northern France are now rising, making open-field farming difficult.

On the contrary, the Dutch took advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune by relying on large-scale greenhouse agriculture.

Prices of vegetables and fruits, which were originally suppressed, skyrocketed again in less than a month.

Of course, fruits and vegetables are actually a small matter.

Because there is another more important thing, that is, the prices of bulk agricultural products have also entered a surge mode.

The prices of wheat, corn, rice, barley, sugar beets, sunflower seeds, rapeseed, peanuts, and soybeans have all risen to varying degrees.

As for why there is no sugar cane or palm, the answer is that the four major forces have lost their voice in the tropics. In addition, after the free world and Homo sapiens companies have completely decoupled, the two sides have rarely traded bulk commodities.

Currently, 92% of global sugar cane production and 100% of palm oil production are in the hands of Homo sapiens companies. Naturally, these two commodities will not appear in the futures market of the free world.

If there were no such serious natural disasters, the agricultural production capacity of the free world would be very rich.

The combined food production capacity of America and Lucia is enough to feed 800-900 million people, and forces such as the Europa Consortium can barely be self-sufficient.

But God is not good at it.

Extreme weather has directly hit agricultural production around the world.

Except for the Homo sapiens company that started indoor lightless agriculture to supplement its production capacity, the agricultural production capacity of other forces has shrunk to varying degrees.

Some forces actually want to thank Homo sapiens. If Homo sapiens had not hired more than 600 million local employees, they would have been in even greater difficulty. Even if they had stocks, they would not be able to withstand the large-scale shutdown of agricultural production.

As for those small forces that still need to purchase large amounts of food from outside, such as the Saudi Arabian Kingdom in West Asia, Persia, and the Ottomans, or the Abdelwad Republic in North Africa.

They have only one solution now.

That is to quickly hug the thigh of the Homo sapiens father, otherwise he will really be doomed.

There are no fruits and vegetables, so I can tolerate it and get over it.

Without food, it would be very fatal.

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Nemanya.

Although this area was also affected by the cold wave in Eastern Europe, the output of open-air agriculture was reduced a lot.

However, the local branch of Homo sapiens Company started a part of the underground indoor lightless farm as early as the beginning of the year, using the energy generated by the nuclear power plant to continuously produce a variety of vegetables and fruits, grain feed, sugar, cooking oil, meat, eggs, and milk.

Prices in various cities in the Nemanya region still haven’t fluctuated at all.

The local per capita monthly income is still 2,477 gold dollars, and the median income is around 1,950 gold dollars.

In the Balkans where Nemanja is located, and the surrounding Europa Commonwealth members, the monthly per capita income is about 1,500 to 1,800 euros.

It looks like the two income figures are about the same.

If calculated based on purchasing power, 1 gold dollar is equivalent to about 35 euros at this time.

This is an extremely scary number.

Employees of the local Homo sapiens company in Nemanya traveled on the space shuttle, and the trip cost only 5 gold dollars. This was the terrifying purchasing power of the gold dollar at this time.

In order to facilitate the daily transactions of gold dollars, the Homo sapiens company had to launch a coin with a face value of 1 cent.

Inside the Fenghuo Home Supermarket in Bell City.

Simmons watched his wife Sophia picking at the shelves, and he suggested helplessly: "Sofia, you'd better ask your brother to come to Nimanya to find a job!"

"You don't know his character?" Sophia picked up a 3kg box of super purple tomatoes and glanced at the label on the box. The price was 0.27 yuan per box.

"But now it's not an option to rely on mail all day long. He doesn't eat fruits and vegetables, so his parents have to eat them! The elderly don't have enough vitamin intake, and their immunity is prone to decline." Simmons rolled his eyes speechlessly.

His eldest uncle's family lives in the Naples area of ​​Western Rome. The other person is a pretentious fashion designer. In addition, it is not easy to get a job as a fashion designer now, and his income can only be enough to survive.

Especially when there are two elderly people at home, the economic situation is even worse.

Now the price of vegetables and fruits in Western Rome has increased significantly.

Take pizza, an indispensable meal for Western Romans, for example. The price of tomatoes is 8.5 euros per kilogram, onions are 5.3 euros per kilogram, and green and red peppers are 6.6 euros per kilogram.

These prices, combined with the monthly income of local people, are simply terrifying.

Many Western Romans could no longer afford to eat fruits and vegetables.

Sophia mailed a box of fruits and vegetables back to her hometown for her parents last week.

Many Europeans working in Nemanja and Suez have recently been sending food back by mail.

This is why Simmons suggested that Sophia take her parents over.

After all, this kind of mailing is inconvenient. Even though the exclusive air transportation of Homo sapiens company is very cheap, the Western Roman postal company that connects to it charges a lot.

Fortunately, the Europa Community reconciled with Lucia the year before last and obtained a large amount of cheap natural gas, otherwise it would be even worse now.

Sofia selected some shelf-stable fruits and vegetables, then asked the waiter to help pack them, and purchased an international air express delivery service directly on her mobile phone, which could be delivered directly to the airport from the supermarket.

The two came out of the supermarket.

A cold wind blew in the face, giving Simmons goosebumps all over his body.

"With this damn weather, it's not going to snow, right?"

"It's almost May, shouldn't it be..." Before Sofia could finish speaking, a few snowflakes slowly fell from her eyes.

Simmons shrugged: "It's already here."

"How about we have a vacation in a few days? Let's go to the Red Sea for a week's vacation?" Sofia suggested.

"Holiday? I heard that there are many coastal cities on the Red Sea. I haven't gone to the beach to bask in the sun for a long time." Simmons nodded.

The two planned to go on vacation to the Red Sea to avoid the abnormal weather.

At this time, the temperature in the entire Europa region, especially in Eastern Europe and Northern Europe at mid-to-high latitudes, suddenly dropped a lot, and winter began again in many places.

The zero-degree isotherm was pushed to central Nemanja, central France, and Western Rome, which was blocked by the Alps, was slightly better.

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