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Date: 2013-05-02 12:04 pm (UTC)There's an existential threat. (Climate change, or, rather, the effects of climate change on agriculture. There's _another_ existential threat, the effects of pesticides and herbicides on pollinators leading to another way for agriculture to fail.)
There's a bunch of politicians actively working to prevent anything being done about the existential threats.
It's really not difficult to imagine either a famine, brought on by one or the other or both existential threats, or the response to the famine being "let the market set food prices!"
Were such a point in time to occur, it's very hard to argue that armed rebellion, revolution if you win, wouldn't be an appropriate response.
I could wish that many people were that worried about the food supply.