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.

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.

    • morrowind@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 年前

      Can we please not have silly jokes on a serious topic like global hunger?

      This is one thing I don’t want from reddit

      • Anissem@lemmy.ml
        2·
        3 年前

        If I don’t laugh about the world I’ll just start crying. It’s sadly the defense mechanism I’ve developed. I use humor to avoid uncomfortable moments in all aspects of my life.

      • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
        1·
        3 年前

        I’m sorry if this disturbs you but free humour is one of the extremely important aspects of the internet that Lemmy needs to support. When you know who you are talking to you can avoid subjects that may hurt the other person but on the public internet this is not possible. The alternative to never dare making any joke because of the risk to hurt someone is dystopian.
        Top comment isn’t even a joke, it’s a movie reference that supports the idea that this is a serious topic.

    • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldBannedBanned from community
      0·
      3 年前

      Been prepping for years just in case this happens. Scary to see its possible.

      • pingveno@lemmy.ml
        2·
        3 年前

        There’s no prepping for a food war. Prepping is for a temporary situation. Food supplies must be constantly restocked.

        • lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world
          0·
          3 年前

          The survivors will be those able to adapt. There’s plenty of nourishing fauna, but how many are ready to eat bugs? Rats?

          • Green_Bay_Guy@lemmy.ml
            2·
            3 年前

            I live in Vietnam, and I’m here to tell you that bugs and rats are more expensive than rice. I’ve eaten them all 🍽️

  • o_oli@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 年前

    More very real effects of global warming that will be ignored or blamed on other things no doubt.

    Global warming will fuck us indirectly before the weather on a Sunday afternoon is actually the problem, many seem to miss that.

    • Green_Bay_Guy@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 年前

      In Vietnam we’re losing crop because of saltwater backflow on the Mekong. Dams have been built in several places upstream and all the reservoirs are being filled.

  • flyingsquirrel@lemmy.ca
    11·
    3 年前

    Mainwhile, Russia is actively engaged in the destruction of Ukraine wheat export terminals, and India remains silent.

    • Zeroxxx@lemm.ee
      11·
      3 年前

      India, Indonesia and the rest of non alignment countries do not need to enter this war set up by the West.

      • astral_avocado@programming.dev
        1·
        3 年前

        I agree with you that India doesn’t need to take sides, but I’m pretty sure Russian/West cooperation had been increasingly positive since the cold war ended, right until Putin decided he wanted to be an imperialist again. The West didn’t make him invade a sovereign, non-threatening country.

        • nestEggParrot@lemmy.sdf.org
          1·
          3 年前

          More than old friends. India is heavily reliant on russian arms. Replacing them would be a slow, expensive process. Considering it is surrounded on two sides by aggressors with regular conflicts, jeopardizing relations with Russia is not an option.

        • sfgifz@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 年前

          Historical and political reasons too. USA keeps arming Pakistan with modern weapons, and they have a single target to use them on. It would be stupid of India to put all it’s weight behind US if that’s a one-sided affair. In an ideal world everyone would side with what is moral, unfortunately we don’t live in that world.

  • PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
    02·
    3 年前

    I’ve always wanted all countries to ban staple food and water exports. If you can’t grow your own food and have your own water, you don’t need to have people living there.

      • PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
        02·
        3 年前

        Could do a phased approach over a decade or so, rather then all at once. But the other thing is that places (like saudi arabia) that shouldn’t have near the population they do, are able to pay much more for food then somalia and so food growers in somalia would rather produce food to sell rather then feed their own people. So you basically shift the starvation to the food producers rather than the food buyers.