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The price of rice is skyrocketing, and it's pushing millions more people towards starvation (www.abc.net.au)

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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.

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[–] Lemmylefty@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago (26 children)

Referring to the potential starvation deaths of a large group of people as a positive for climate change is like saying you’re glad someone died early from a car accident instead of suicide.

[+] CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works -14 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Yes, but im just a very positive thinker today!

(is irony dead? Does everything need the /s? Are people so insane they think someone would writing that in a serious note...)

[–] Lemmylefty@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Honestly? Yeah, I thought you were serious, because I’ve seen that attitude expressed before. Generally it’s more “this hazy, unspecified population can be sacrificed to help me deal with the existential dread that me and my world are walking off a cliff” than “dear me I so DO delight in death”, but it makes my teeth ache.

Thank you for clarifying, and I’m sorry for jumping on you.

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't think he was serious, fwiw.

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