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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

When a massive crop of cheap and efficient calories is destroyed during a growing season, what are the socio-economic consequences?

Asking for an Irish friend

The heat has since been blamed for at least 31 deaths nationwide, according to the country’s disease control agency, while more than 900,000 livestock and 1.4 million farmed fish have died.

Yeah, that seems really bad

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago

and the inheritors to the hegemony that caused the irish famine are causing this one as well -- just the same as it is with the current crop of genocides and ethnic cleansings.