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Re:What happens when a reservoir goes dry by jdkee on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @10:41PM (#32160712)
"The ability for the world to produce a huge surplus of calories and to trade them as commodities across borders IS resilience."

HN bot remind me in one year.

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Re:What happens when a reservoir goes dry by ch4s3 on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @11:02PM (#32160863)
I think this is pretty obvious. Prior to global trade and the green revolution a bad harvest locally could mean starvation. The war in Ukraine will make basic food stuffs a lot more expensive in the Middle East and Africa, which is tragic but it's not really the same thing.
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