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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Me, a doomer, with pseudobulbar affect.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The Indian rice export ban, the war in Ukraine and El Niño are combining...

There's a war in El Niño? What does that even mean? I thought El Niño was a weather thing, not a location.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

No no no... The war in Ukraine and El Nino are combining. Someone figured out how to weaponize the weather for use in the war.