Plague Poems3d ago
My religious friend informed me
that it is very foolish
to speak so cavalierly
of the four horsemen,
pestilence and war and death
yes, those are here,
but famine remains in the stable,
so I sent her a picture
of prices at the supermarket
and she replied: ah.
Show threadPēteris Krišjānis
@plaguepoems famine is autumn. If everything goes way it currently does.
Apr 3 at 9:40pmWeb
Show threadDustin D. Wind3d ago

@peteriskrisjanis @plaguepoems Even if not, I fear it'll be in years at the latest.

What do our oiligarch overlords think is going to happen to crops, when water tables destabilize because mountain snowpack is mostly gone ~before~ summer? Or when floods interleave with heat domes?

Plants are AMAZING, in how they can create life from just sunlight and water. But they don't do so hot when they spend weeks dry, followed by days where they're bereft of oxygen in saturated soils.