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Why have famines plummeted?

Alarmists always tout "crop losses," even while famines have dropped for decades.

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  • Anonymous
    1 week ago

    When you are dead you can't send the report in?

  • Anonymous
    1 week ago

    This guy says though you'd think the main cause of famine would be natural disaster, that's not true. He blames politics and war.

    "Refuting the enduring but erroneous view that attributes famine to overpopulation and natural disaster, he shows how political decision or political failing is an essential element in every famine, while the spread of democracy and human rights, and the ending of wars, were major factors in the near-ending of this devastating phenomenon. " (Author Alex De Waal)

  • JOHN
    Lv 4
    2 weeks ago

    I'm not a scientist by trade, but I, too, wonder why they say that.

  • Anonymous
    2 weeks ago

    Technology can increase non-local food production which isn't going to be helpful when the catastrophic failure that your cherry picking ignorance occurs.

  • Anonymous
    2 weeks ago

    Maybe because you touch yourself at night.

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