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Re:Nuclear explosion impact on humans indoors by inglor_cz on Friday January 20, 2023 @02:39AM (#34450178)
Don't forget the fact that a few nations export massive surpluses of food. If the global trade chain is disrupted, their customers simply won't have enough food to eat.

Most famines in the last 100 years were at least partially caused by an inability to supply food from neighboring or just slightly more distant regions.

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Re:Nuclear explosion impact on humans indoors by geysersam on Friday January 20, 2023 @04:08AM (#34450628)
Let's not pretend the food production subsidies are there for some kind of altruistic reasons. They're mostly there because of lobbyism.

There are also people who say that the overproduction of food in EU and US causes underproduction of food in poorer countries, making them less self sufficient and more sensitive to price increases and supply chain disruptions.

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