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Re:Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record... by BigTTYGothGF on Sunday August 16, 2026 @03:55PM (#49323090)
We've made a couple advances in food production, storage, and distribution in the decades since Hammurabi last walked the earth.
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Re:Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record... by ben_w on Monday August 17, 2026 @02:23AM (#49327128)
And still we are subject to bad harvests, floods, droughts, pests, and diseases. Any given farmer still has to deal with the consequences of this, even if a nation, or humanity collectively, is better insulated.

Futures contracts are themselves also more developed than what was in those laws.

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