The Indian rice export ban, the war in Ukraine and El Niño are combining to create a “doom loop” for the world’s poorest people, as staple food prices soar.

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      Referring to the potential starvation deaths of a large group of people as a positive for climate change is like saying you’re glad someone died early from a car accident instead of suicide.

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        Yeah, once they cannot afford the food they stop making any CO2.

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          Not sure if you caught the text of what they’re saying: people who can’t afford to eat rice starving to death aren’t removing much of humanity’s carbon footprint.

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              Where you suggest twice that nuclear war would be good or that your whole life is a joke?

              I feel fucked up ways about stuff too. Nothing wrong with it and all that negativity’s gotta go somewhere. Just wanted to head the ecofascism train off at the pass.

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                  It doesn’t make sense even on a technical level. Cities are all near water and their fallout plumes would irradiate huge swaths of the earth to the east in addition to everything downstream.

                  The infrastructure of civilization is all clustered around cities as well, so we’d lose access to the best spots to live.

                  I got nothing but sympathy for you, thirty years ago that bit would have killed. Today everyone assumes you’re serious.

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      It’s culling the wrong demographic. Removing poor people is the least efficient. Removing the poorest will have the least effect possible.

      These comments always make me wonder wether it’s a lack of education, bad taste or racism.

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          Yes, I read it before. No, it didn’t change much. Where’s the joke, what’s funny about this?

          On the other hand, too many people write these comments seriously, which is enough reason to counter them.

          It’s downplaying the climate crisis and normalizing racism. You can insist it was done in a lighthearted way, but that’s not so relevant.

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          Except the people who prefer to pay less for their goods and services. They depend on people willing / forced to work for very little; they need the poor.

          Also this is not a business where you could hire and fire people based on what is ‘needed’, and you’re not the boss.

          These are humans with exactly the same right to food as you.