[gogomrbrown]

media priorities

[teaforyourginaa]

??? These are both very important things I don’t understand why people act like we can’t care about more than one thing at a time. They’re important in different scales, but both are things worth caring about.

[twerkcircus]

Rice is a super important grain in a lot of cultures and the world running out of rice could mean that more people in those areas are going to go hungry/starve. So like yeah this is still a pretty big deal

[kyuremium-z]

“this important grain in a lot of cultures is running low and people in multiple countries might be affected by starvation because of this”
“but what about this one city in the united states huh? the media’s priorities are bad. uwu”

dont get me wrong i want to support Flint, Michigan but a grain that will affect multiple countries running low is more important. Stop being so America-centric please.

[starkillerrx]

[jeromeg-41]

Rice???? Really????? Drinking water for Flint Michigan is a shit ton more important. I care more about my own country men than other countries. Take a poll. Most would say they feel the same.

[ranma-official]

NB: mass starvation in a globalist culture tends to affect people in other regions

[mitigatedchaos]

To add on here for @jeromeg-41: Starvation leads to civil war and mass migration. Mass migration leads to exceeding the assimilatory abilities of the nation (because you can’t actually get the full political will for exclusion). That leads to trouble, as Europe is learning with child brides in Sweden and truck attacks in Germany.

It is absolutely vital that the technology-advancing capabilities of the developed nations be maintained in order to avoid civilizational collapse due to resource shortages. To that end, plus the avoiding the costs of policing and so on, a few million or tens of millions of dollars to develop a better rice or suitable alternative crop would be a justified investment. It’s better than food aid, too, as it merely preserves the existing farming capabilities of those nations rather than artificially increasing the population above what the economy there can support. Instead it increases/maintains what their economy can support.