> How Prepared Are We for the Next Giant Solar Flare? As well prepared as we were for the Next Big pandemic. We even have a whole ideological system to shirk responsibility and run unchecked into disaster.

Every nation on this planet should by now have a 3 year basic food reserve, to buffer against failing harvests due to global warming weather events/changes.

Its currently difficult to setup, costs too much, we already did it during the cold-war and yet, soon as the wall fell, it was all slashed and cut. I blame the retirement of politicians who remembered how starvation feels.

First real long-term drought with aquifer failings or a cold-burst pre-harvest, will hit us like a hammer. Nothing like mass-starvation, to re-calibrate political priorities.

There is no awareness that the strategic reserve exists only in name now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_grain_reserve

Basically is a price control tool, where over-production is shipped of as aid. What it not is - is a reserve.

Interesting paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237409034_Strategic...