#viceroy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #viceroy, aggregated by home.social.
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https://collapse2050.substack.com/p/how-the-2027-super-el-nino-will-replicate - ... the 1877 Global #Famine
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'While the droughts were environmental, the distribution of food was political. In British #India, #Viceroy Lord #Lytton administered the crisis through a fanatical commitment to free-market #capitalism and Malthusian population theory, the belief that famine is a natural and necessary check on overpopulation. ....'...the colonial administration refused to halt the export of food. At the peak of the famine in 1877, Lytton oversaw the export of a record 320,000 tons of Indian wheat to Great Britain (Davis, 2001) to maintain imperial trade balances. To Lytton, the #market was self-regulating and sacred. In the Madras Presidency, ... Sir Richard Temple went so far as to criminalize private #charity, making it illegal to distribute private food donations that might interfere with grain prices.
'Instead of direct relief, the colonial state established heavy labor camps. To qualify for a food ration, starving peasants were forced to travel miles on foot to work on infrastructure projects, .... Temple introduced a ration known as the “Temple Wage”. This consisted of 450 grams of grain per day .... The Temple Wage provided roughly 1,627 calories a day, fewer than the starvation rations later provided to inmates at the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald ....''In 1876, the global average #temperature was 13.8C. Today, it is 15.23C.... James Hansen recently predicted the current El Niño could push the average global temperature anomaly to 1.7C above the pre-industrial average,....
'.....We are facing a climate shock that exceeds the thermal extremes of the Victorian era. ..., modern global agriculture could potentially still produce enough calories to sustain humanity through severe multi-continent droughts. But if history is any guide, even if aggregate worldwide production remains sufficient, a combination of bureaucratic ineptitude and ideological cruelty will once again dictate who eats and who starves.
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I made a friend who also has imposter syndrome. #viceroy #butterfly
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Stumbled across a Viceroy butterfly this week in the #swamp near our neighborhood. Very happy this specimen was willing to stay put for a minute!
#nature #butterfly #viceroy #amateurphotography #photography #galaxys10+
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