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  • opposide [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    As a climatologist let me just say that America’s growing zones and seasons are especially vulnerable to collapse in a bad growing season. Unfortunately, most of these zones will be affected simultaneously in most bad years. America’s only buffer to famine are huge amounts of money to buy food and a huge amount of land to potentially pump out the bare minimums.

    Will they use this vast sum of money to help the people? Probably not.

    • quartz242 [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      More likely the meat and dairy industries will get bailed out as the food lines shift to providing cheap meat slurry, shelf milk, and canned foods.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      The US produces foodstuff in such obscene surplus that the real effect of famine won't show up for some time.

      What we have to worry about is the day some investment asshole discovers he can "disrupt" the grocery store business by shutting down all the ones in the poor neighborhoods and tripling prices in rich neighborhoods.

      Then a profit spike finances a cascade of vulture capitalist consolidation and price explosion. Meanwhile, mass media will insist it was the consumer's fault for eating unsustainably, and the responsible thing to do is yell at brown people for being too fat.

      • opposide [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        It would have to be a years long cascade but that’s not even close to impossible

      • BillyMays [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Tripling all the ones in rich neighborhoods

        Erewhon

        Shutting Down all the ones in the poor neighborhoods

        More food deserts.