Comments by "Michael RCH" (@michaelrch) on "Ethiopia on the brink of worst famine in decades" video.

@andrewjones575 I think you need to go and learn the history of the Irish potato famine before you go any further. It was not just a blight that caused the death of a million people and forced a quarter of the population to emigrate. That blight hit most of Europe but only Ireland suffered a famine. It was British landowners and British policy. The British were exporting food out of Ireland as the Irish starved to death year after year. The British whigs actually called the famine "an effective mechanism for reducing surplus population" and blamed the famine on "the moral evil of the selfish perverse turbulent character of the (Irish) people". I encourage you to learn the history of Malthusian attitudes towards population growth and dial back the ahistorical and unscientific assertions about it all being due to black people breeding too much, or however you conceive of this.
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GTFO with that Malthusian bullshit. This is about climate-change induced water and food shortages, as explicitly described and predicted in the IPCC reports on Africa. The latest report forecasts up to 700 million people displaced by 2030 if we don't act decisively to reduce emissions now. What you are saying is no different from how the British blamed the Irish for the Potato Famine.
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Lindsey Hoffmann not likely tbh. War is not why food is thrown away. Maladapted foods systems are. Most of the food waste is happening in the rich world, and mostly due to a consumer capitalist approach to food production. This is how people in rich countries can go hungry while millions of tons of food are dumped in landfill. We need a food policy that makes nutrition of the population the first goal, not the creation of profits for massive global food corporations. This would also help hugely with the environmental impacts of food waste.
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This is the future for most of Africa if we don't stop climate change. The latest IPCC reports 700 million people may be displaced by 2030 due to climate-induced water and food shortages.
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