There's a local butcher shop here which will give you a chest freezer if you buy enough meat to fill it. I got a 1 cubic meter freezer and I expect the price of meat when I'm done eating it will be significantly higher than what I paid for it.
The problem is there are about 6 billion other people who can't find a deal like that (or afford it), and they are getting more and more pissed off. 
Topic: We Are Now One Year Away From Global Riots, Complex Systems Theorists Say - page 2. (Read 4479 times)
September 11, 2012, 12:03:53 PM
September 11, 2012, 10:58:07 AM
There's a local butcher shop here which will give you a chest freezer if you buy enough meat to fill it. I got a 1 cubic meter freezer and I expect the price of meat when I'm done eating it will be significantly higher than what I paid for it.
September 11, 2012, 10:52:00 AM
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In a 2011 paper, researchers at the Complex Systems Institute unveiled a model that accurately explained why the waves of unrest that swept the world in 2008 and 2011 crashed when they did. The number one determinant was soaring food prices. Their model identified a precise threshold for global food prices that, if breached, would lead to worldwide unrest.
The MIT Technology Review explains how CSI’s model works: “The evidence comes from two sources. The first is data gathered by the United Nations that plots the price of food against time, the so-called food price index of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN. The second is the date of riots around the world, whatever their cause.”
http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/9/10/we-are-now-one-year-away-from-global-riots-complex-systems-theorists-say
The MIT Technology Review explains how CSI’s model works: “The evidence comes from two sources. The first is data gathered by the United Nations that plots the price of food against time, the so-called food price index of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN. The second is the date of riots around the world, whatever their cause.”
http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/9/10/we-are-now-one-year-away-from-global-riots-complex-systems-theorists-say
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