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America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow
(www.nytimes.com)
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this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2023
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That will also happen but it will not stop the hunger.
Food exports will dry up as countries hold their food for their own people (See: India's ban on rice exports) and the countries that cannot feed their own populations will implode.
The Arab spring started as protests over a jump in food prices.