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The people are hungry: The link between food and revolution
2013-08-15 23:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The rising price of food isnt the only thing driving the revolutionary fervor from Tunisia to Turkey to Brazil. The bad economy was surely a principal factor (remember that Adel Khazri shouted This is Tunisia, this is unemployment, as he burned). There was the effect of new social media technology. And then there was that tyranny thing that people seemed to dislike. But food scarcity is different, because it looks as if its going to stick around even as the economy improves. And unless we do...
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