Extreme China heatwave could lead to global chaos and food shortages

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[–]MagicMike 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Wonderful news! Bring everything home and completely cut off China from us. Kick out all Chinese students (spies), sever all links with China.

[–]Insider 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

yeah, that's not gonna solve any problems buddy

Your enemies are the elite, oligarchy and mainstream pedophiles, who are the ones telling you that Russia and China are the enemies.

Of course, you could be on their side, which is why you're promoting this bullshit.

[–]jamesK_3rd 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

How about the USA stop subsidizing farmers and the auto industry, so that farmers start producing wheat, and actual food instead of corn for ethanol and subsidy payments.

[–]NuclearBadger 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Or destroying crops for payouts.

[–]Canbot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Chinese sourced food is untrustworthy. This is a good thing.

[–]CreditKnifeMan 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

China hoards over half the world's grain, pushing up global prices DECEMBER 23, 2021

What are the odds?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Their "elite" fear being overthrown by the masses. Hunger can be one hell of a drive to change something.

But I suppose most US sheeple couldn't understand, even if they tried hard to. Especially when their own BMI hits the forties.

Or if they got to take a walker to get their mail.

Different worlds knowing almost nothing about each other, i suppose.

Sometimes things are simple.

[–]CreditKnifeMan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Their "elite" fear being overthrown by the masses. Hunger can be one hell of a drive to change something.

In China, this is known as "the mandate from heaven".

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I suppose, you're possibly confounding this with kamikaze, which was when the Japanese didn't have to fight off a Mongolian invasion.

This hunger thing could pose problems for democracies and autocracies worldwide. Especially when people are angry anyway.

Because they also are freezing at the same time, you know ?

Makes you think what you could achieve with the tools at your hands.

[–]CreditKnifeMan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I suppose, you're possibly confounding this with kamikaze, which was when the Japanese didn't have to fight off a Mongolian invasion.

Far from it.

The "divine wind" or kame-kazi was a timely typhoon, which destroyed the Khan's invading armada.

The mandate from heaven is the universe's way of indicating to the Chinese people that a dynasty is favored, or needs to be replaced.

https://alphahistory.com/chineserevolution/mandate-of-heaven-confucianism/

“As a matter of historical fact, all peasant uprisings and changes of dynasty were staged and carried out in the name of the will of heaven. It transpires that tianming means ‘destiny, i.e. orders or instructions from heaven’ and geming ‘revolution’ [both imply] the transferring of orders or instructions from heaven, taking the mandate from one ruler to give it to another. The ancient Chinese believed that intervention from heaven in terms of the heavenly mandate might take various forms. If heaven was angry, there could be floods, droughts and other natural disasters which would immediately affect the livelihood of an agricultural society. A supernatural being was believed to be behind all these doings and undoings.”

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Only that today China has about 22 million students per year. So who knows what their "middle"-class does believe from these old legends and stories.

When i read news from and about China it somewhat looks to me like Capitalism ran through this country very unobstructed and fast but then they decided:

"Nah... not our cup of tea" and forbade a lot of libertising opportunities for free minds.

With or without money.

"Better keep a lid on this"-like.

[–]Cosmo3k 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

All according to the plan... (laughs in Schwab)

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The United States is one of the most self-sufficient agricultural producing nations in the world. If anything this might help us. I understand why the rest of the world would be concerned though, particularly countries that import their food.

Germany, Italy, Switzerland, South Korea, Japan, Norway, Belgium, Haiti, Somalia, Dominican Republic, Zimbabwe, Armenia, Netherlands, Panama and Syria are all fucked as they rely heavily on food imports. Their populations are about double what they can support on their own.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Too many useless eaters on the planet.

[–]Insider 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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