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The end will come not because those extra billions are not being fed, but because they will not stay put and starve. They will go where they think they would be
by ncmncm 4y ago
The end will come not because those extra billions are not being fed, but because they will not stay put and starve. They will go where they think they would be able to live. In going, they will provoke panic in affected countries, driving fascists into power, who will provoke wars, as fascists everywhere do.
Wars interfere with supply chains, making everything worse, globally. Degrading conditions provoke more wars. It ends badly.
- giraffe_lady 4y ago> they will provoke panic in affected countries, driving fascists into power I think this is more or less correct but it puts the agency in the wrong place. The migrants don't provoke anything here, they're just doing what seems necessary given their position and constraints. A more useful view is probably that the fascists provoke panic so that the fascists can seize power. It's not like they spring into existence halfway through this process, they are players from the beginning with the same goals throughout.
- ncmncm 4y agoI get you. We can say their arrival provokes panic, fanned and exploited by fascists. But causation is a thorny topic.