Re:Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response ...
by Retric on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @12:06PM
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Having food shipped in still requires it to be created somewhere to be shipped out.
It’s very possible for some percentage of the population to starve even during a food surplus, but starving people will bid up the cost of food to the point where you can’t get a 40% of the population to have a surplus in a famine in any society that we know about.
Here is the official definition for the minimum to qualify as a famine:
“At least 20% of households in an area face extreme food shortages with a limited ability to cope
The prevalence of acute malnutrition in children exceeds 30%
The death rate exceeds two people per 10,000 people per day“
That’s killing off over 7% of the population per year.
It’s very possible for some percentage of the population to starve even during a food surplus, but starving people will bid up the cost of food to the point where you can’t get a 40% of the population to have a surplus in a famine in any society that we know about.
Here is the official definition for the minimum to qualify as a famine:
“At least 20% of households in an area face extreme food shortages with a limited ability to cope The prevalence of acute malnutrition in children exceeds 30% The death rate exceeds two people per 10,000 people per day“
That’s killing off over 7% of the population per year.