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Making food more expensive is not a way to fix the food system, because higher food prices fall hardest on the poorest people.
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Hannah Ritchie Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World Simply making fossil fuels more expensive without having affordable alternatives just makes energy more expensive, which hits the poorest hardest. Do subsidies make meat much cheaper?hannahritchie.substack.com · 9 Feb 2026All 4 korrents from this piece
Their wordsSimply making fossil fuels more expensive without having affordable alternatives just makes energy more expensive, which hits the poorest hardest.
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↗Do subsidies make meat much cheaper?hannahritchie.substack.com
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George Monbiot Guardian columnist and environmental writer But while I have seen no evidence (and Chris provides none) that higher food prices alleviate global hunger, there is a wealth of evidence that they exacerbate it. The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed Peoplemonbiot.com · 4 Oct 2023All 6 korrents from this piece
Their wordsBut while I have seen no evidence (and Chris provides none) that higher food prices alleviate global hunger, there is a wealth of evidence that they exacerbate it.
Where this was said
↗The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed Peoplemonbiot.com
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