@violetcastles I feel like the way you phrase things invites dispute because they are not literally true- starvation has happened many times in history- look at the viking settlements in Greenland for example
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Reply · Aug 27, 2023@violetcastles what is the "natural state"? 8 billion of us absolutely could not live as hunter-gatherers, there's not enough land / wild foodsReply · Aug 28, 2023@HephaistosF how would you know that? seems extremely unlikely, they of all ppl would have stockpiled in advanceReply · May 20, 2023@Pathless110 it's historical not ongoing, but otoh the ppl mentioned are still around...Reply · May 5, 2026@JPKivisto @meow464_ tbh my more pessimistic priors wrt communism suggest mass famine is likely, but i was being charitable and assuming that is not…