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Complex Systems Theorists Predict We're About One Year From Global Food Riots
pigrabbitbear writes with conjecture on what triggers global unrest. Quoting the article: "In a 2011 paper, researchers at the Complex Systems Institute unveiled a model that accurately explained why the waves of unrest that swept the world in 2008 and 2011 crashed when they did. The number one determinant was soaring food prices. Their model identified a precise threshold for global food prices that, if breached, would lead to worldwide unrest."
Means we can buy their cities for half price. Engage the diplomat unis!
Malthus, perhaps. Hari Seldon, probably not.
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Better yet, let's just off ourselves to start getting things back in balance; you first.
Is the shape important?
BM3
I need to start training my kids at killing other kids in archery so that we can win the games this year?
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
My current net worth is about $600,000 and I have this in my basement. I'm pretty sure I don't have to worry.
Yes you do. Now we know we can raid your basement for food.
In general, I agree with you. Mostly because 98% of americans cant grow their own food. But three is a small group of us that had a bumper crop this year. I have a 400 sq foot patio that I grew more produce than my family could eat. we had so many tomatoes I wasted 5 bushels on making KETCHUP. I have enough canned food from my small patio garden to last my family of 3 until feburary. If I would have tripled by garden by planting the neighbors yard, I would have not only fed my family until next summer but would have had food left over to feed the neighbors for a short while. Add in a rabbit pen and a chicken coop and I have the protien side complete, problem is the city wont allow it.
But due to the lack of education in the 1st world countries, most people cant figure this stuff out. They will be the first to starve. The rest of us that know what we are doing simply need to eat a lot less, as fat neighbors is a dead giveaway.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Wrong.
Apple INVENTED technology.
Then they patented it.
Of course! Most people have gotten so used to square meals that if we start tossing them cubed meals there is a risk they will be unable to process it.
And with an 'L'!
(Don't you hate that?)
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Two years of freeze dried foods and Meals Ready to Eat and you will be rioting even with a full stomach.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Yup. My grandmother grew up near Mobile Alabama, close to the Florida panhandle on the Gulf coast. She would jog to and from school (they called it "trottin'" instead of jogging though) because occasionally kids were killed by Florida panthers along the way. She had a lot of brothers and sisters, most of whom didn't live to adulthood.
You tend to be inclined to produce more offspring when there's a real concern they might get EATEN BY GODDAMN PANTHERS on the way to school.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
Well, I believe that rounded corners is already patented.
Two years of freeze dried foods and Meals Ready to Eat and your colon will be rioting even with a full stomach.
Just stay away from open flame and you should be all right.
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"What in the name of Fats Waller is that?"
"A four-foot prune."
I'm sure that Manifest Destiny can be pointed north, as well as west...