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You're correct:

https://time.com/6209889/pakistan-food-floods/

tl;dr: This will lead to rice and cotton shortages, compounding this year's wheat shortages (climate, Putin) and olive / sunflower oil shortages (Spain's megadrought).



Spains drought [1], fueled in part by more than 50 criminal mega-wildfires. What happened in Spain in 2022 is not climate change, is environmental terrorism.

Last week a woman was caught starting a wildfire in Galicia by a police after seven wildfires occur in the same area.

Environmental terrorism... and maybe even economic sabotage.

If there is a team of puppets, there must be a puppeteer somewhere. Right?. We had a interesting high number of events targeting tourism. More than 6000 wildfires with many very big wildfires in categories rarely seen before, several train sabotages (optic fiber stolen for no reason, and a train exiting from a tunnel directly into a wildfire) in a country with an economy based in tourism. A high number of wildfires also in France, Portugal and Romania but Spain suffered the bulk of the attacks.

[1] I don't think that the mega prefix is justified still


Incendiaries or people with mental illness that leads them to do this have always existed. What makes you think that this year something unusual happened? Most likely the number of people doing this is the same as ever, but droughts have made their consequences more extreme.




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