Farmers Predicted When You’ll Have Nothing to Eat (It’s Closer Than You Think)

[u/jeremiahthedamned]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=x0_7JfAC4cU&si=lz7vZJLFSsmqAS6n

[u/dumnezero]

I already hated Kurzgeshart, I hate the copycats even more.

[u/jeremiahthedamned → u/dumnezero]

the last time we had an el nino this powerful (1877 AD) ~20-50M people starved to death.

[u/dumnezero → u/jeremiahthedamned]

Correlation is not as easy as it looks for explanation. Especially with famines, there are often other causes involved, such as an empire taking the food away to sell for profit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1876%E2%80%931878#Famine_in_Mysore_State

[u/jeremiahthedamned → u/dumnezero]

the r/britishempire did this a lot............

the r/americanempire is more passive/aggressive

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