The United Nations’ push for a sweeping carbon levy on global shipping just hit a wall, with the International Maritime Organization voting to shelve the decision for a full year. This move came right after Saudi Arabia stepped in with a motion to delay, passing narrowly at 57 to 49 during their October 17 meeting in London. Behind the scenes, it’s clear the globalists at the IMO are scrambling because President Trump’s no-nonsense administration has made it crystal clear: America won’t stand for this kind of economic sabotage disguised as environmental virtue.
President Trump didn’t mince words on Truth Social the day before the vote: “I am outraged that the International Maritime Organization is voting in London this week to pass a global Carbon Tax.”
He slammed the whole scheme as a way to jack up prices on everyday Americans while funding some shadowy “Green New Scam Bureaucracy to spend your money on their Green dreams.” And he’s right—this so-called net-zero framework would slap mandatory fuel standards on massive ships over 5,000 gross tonnage, forcing the entire industry to cough up fees per ton of emissions starting in 2027. It’s billed as the first global carbon price for any sector, but let’s call it what it is: a backdoor tax hike that could inflate shipping costs by 10 percent or more, hammering consumers, energy producers, and businesses alike.
The U.S. State Department, along with the Energy and Transportation secretaries, laid it out in a joint statement on October 10: “The Administration unequivocally rejects this proposal before the IMO and will not tolerate any action that increases costs for our citizens, energy providers, shipping companies and their customers, or tourists.”
They warned of “disastrous” economic fallout and hinted at serious pushback, like barring ships from nations backing the tax from U.S. ports, slapping visa curbs on crews, or hitting them with commercial penalties. This isn’t just talk; it’s a reminder that under Trump, America puts its own people first, not some unelected bureaucrats in Geneva dreaming up ways to redistribute wealth under the guise of saving the planet.
Look deeper, and this postponement smells like fear. The IMO’s 176 member states know full well that with Trump back in the White House, their grand plan to control global trade through climate mandates doesn’t stand a chance. Reports suggest U.S. officials leaned hard on other countries, threatening tariffs and sanctions to flip votes. Even outlets like The Guardian are crying foul, accusing the Trump team of “intimidation tactics” that forced nations to back off. Meanwhile, Congressman Vern Buchanan cheered the delay as “a major win for American workers, consumers and businesses,” pointing out how it spares us from yet another layer of international overreach.
The carbon tax push fits into a bigger pattern where global elites use the climate narrative to justify endless regulations and fees, all while ignoring how it crushes energy independence and jacks up living costs for regular folks. Small island nations and eco-activists might whine about delayed “action,” but the reality is these schemes often funnel money into corrupt funds that never deliver on their promises.
Trump’s stance exposes the fragility of their agenda—postpone now, or face total rejection later. If history tells us anything, these delays are just stalling tactics until they think they can sneak it through under a weaker leader. But with America leading the charge against this abomination, the globalists might have to rethink their whole playbook.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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