The United Kingdom’s need to import food from abroad could prove extremely detrimental in the event of global disaster.
Britain’s reliance on foreign powers for its supply of food would be significantly to its detriment in the event of global disaster, one expert has claimed.
In a talk given to the Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk, public health expert Professor Nick Wilsonthat Britain could be in a difficult position should a major disaster occur compared to the likes of other European islands, such as Iceland and Ireland. According to the expert, what makes islands able to survive such massive disaster events is their ability to be agriculturally and technologically self-sufficient, being able to feed its people using domestic agriculture and marine resources, as well as produce the likes of medicines using its domestic industry.
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