Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

Wish you were here.

Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts. I'm John Bachelors with my colleague Professor Evan Ellis of the U.S. Army Work College

Strategic Studies Institute, the Drought in Panama that plunged the level of the canal and cutting

off revenue for Panama, cutting off traffic jammed up on both sides of the canal, the

critical waterway at the same time there's trouble in the Suez.

Not good for the global economy, but we connect this to El Nino.

Fine.

El Nino is also connected to the overwhelming flooding in southern Brazil, Rio Grande

New Seoul, the photographs show whole cities in feats of water.

That is connected to, we're told, climate disruption in Argentina and elsewhere

of two things. Dengue fever, which is coming early this year and it's in Brazil and Argentina, leaving you joint swollen, fever,

inability to work, loss of energy, and a phenomenon for the fields called Leaf Hooper, which again is linked to climate.

I don't link it. I'm just reading the news from Reuters. It damages the corn crop in Argentina.

So Professor quickly, because we're going to Argentina, these climate-related

problems, are they seen that way in these vital states for the world's food? Brazil being one, Argentina being another, Venezuela

being another. Do they understand that this has a climate link?

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