A Story About the Supply Chain

This Bloomberg story about the global supply chain for cut flowers shows one piece of the disruption that's happening and that may not get repaired, depending on whether we see a long-term trend toward localization, as Jason Szegedy thinks we will. From a climate crisis perspective, that would be good, but the real people shown in the story will clearly suffer.

It's not just flowers, and it's not even just global supply chains, of course. Regional and local supply chains are also in disarray, with food for restaurants in oversupply and all sorts of home-used goods in undersupply. There's a good likelihood there will be a shortage of plants for vegetable gardening this summer as well, as people stay home and want the security of their own food.

Interesting times.