Newly planted rice saplings have been underwater since July after torrential rain battered northern India, with landslides and flash floods sweeping through the region.

Last month, India, which is the world’s largest exporter of rice, announced a ban on exporting non-basmati white rice in a bid to calm rising prices at home and ensure food security. India then followed with more restrictions on its rice exports, including a 20% duty on exports of parboiled rice.

The move has triggered fears of global food inflation, hurt the livelihoods of some farmers and prompted several rice-dependent countries to seek urgent exemptions from the ban.

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    Man, we are so utterly fucked. It’s so damn frustrating that this is still just the very beginning of extreme weather caused by climate change. 10-20 years from now is going to be pretty fucking bleak for much of the world.

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      We basically are. The only good news is that young conservatives believe in and want to do something about climate change, so when the current crop of oil-funded deniers die off, we have some hope to limit the damage. That said, I’m seriously considering moving up north away north as far away from the equator as possible, and to an area with fresh water and farmland.

      Then buying a gun. Never thought I’d need one after I left the Army, but as things get worse, I suspect that more violence will result due to scarcity and more likely: stress related to perceived scarcity that doesn’t exist. It’s always the fear that’s more dangerous than the reality. We can probably get by with easy to grow, nutrient-dense foods that are boring to eat, like beans. It’s the stress of not being able to eat “tasty” food that’ll probably get people to snap. Gunfights over steak, etc.

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        If we’re dependent in any way on “the next generation of conservatives” for anything, we should just stop any kind of hoping now.

        There is no validity, utility or future for conservatism. We can’t address the issues we have in this world till that philosophy is dead and buried.

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          You are spreading disinformation.

          Climate change can be significantly reduced or prevented entirely while maintaining or improving the quality of life for everyone except perhaps for the elite.

          1. A rapid transition to 100% renewable electricity, which is considered to be very achievable with current technology.
          2. Transition to electric-powered systems for heating, most likely ground or air source heat pumps, and investment in insulating buildings.
          3. Rapid substitution of private cars for cheap, clean, comfortable, electric-powered public transport, wherever possible.
          4. The transition of the majority of over-land shipping to using electric rail rather than road.
          5. The transition to cleaner fuels or electricity for oversea shipping.
          6. Globally transitioning to a diet which is almost entirely plant-based.

          None of these steps is particularly hard or expensive. Around a trillion (1,000,000,000,000) dollars are invested in fossil fuels annually which is money that could be put to better use right at the outset.

          If the economic, political or societal structures we have makes the execution of these changes difficult or impossible, then it falls to us to bring about a change in those structures.

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              I was once told that anyone who claims that they agree with your idea, but they think it isn’t feasible because “average people wouldn’t accept it” is either astroturfing or ignorant. From the head spinning levels of disinformation in the original post, it’s pretty clear which side you fall on.

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        No way you were in a combat related occupation and didn’t own a personal firearm. If you had a desk job then what was the point of mentioning the Army?

        I call bullshit.

        edit: It’s been over 24 hours and he’s done nothing to displace my assumptions. This isn’t my first day on the internet.

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            some pretty insane assumptions there mate

            Perhaps, something about it set off my bullshit radar.

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                It’s been over 24 hours and he’s done nothing to displace my assumptions. This isn’t my first day on the internet, I’ve seen this shit before.