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@breadandcircuses It's like the British landlords during the Irish Potato famine. People starved while Ireland produced a grain surplus. The rights of the rich to earn their money was more important than the lives of the starving Irish. Food was exported while people died of starvation.

All the excuses you hear about climate change were used against the Irish - they are lazy and not minding their personal carbon foot print, oh sorry, farming their potatoes well. The Irish need to pull themselves up by their boot straps so they don't starve. The market needs to rule and famines are natural. Even: it is good and natural to reduce overpopulation.

I'm far too cynical today to think that things will change before crops start to fail, given what it took to get Britian off corn subsidies. The corn laws subsiding grain exports didn't end until 1 in 10 people died.