Starvation has ended more than one political empire. The pages of human history are frequently chaptered by acute moments of hunger which defined the story of civilisation in the same way that cataclysms divide the geological record.
The West has been caught up in the decadence of culinary success for over a century, meaning that both citizens and politicians have forgotten that failure on their part to provide good governance doesn’t end in election defeat.
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