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The price of rice is skyrocketing, and it's pushing millions more people towards starvation (www.abc.net.au)

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The Indian rice export ban, the war in Ukraine and El Niño are combining to create a "doom loop" for the world's poorest people, as staple food prices soar.

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[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago (32 children)

Can we please not have silly jokes on a serious topic like global hunger?

This is one thing I don't want from reddit

[–] SeedyOne@lemmy.ca 84 points 1 year ago (11 children)

It may sound silly but it's put succinctly and there's an element of grim truth to it.

Additionally, do we have to compare everything to Reddit? It's the Internet, people are going to cope how they cope.

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