There's a drought in parts of Europe at the moment. Hunger stones are appearing in various rivers. These stones appear whenever a river has unusually little water in it. They have carvings on them. Usually a message of some sort and one or more dates. However, their appearance is neither as unusual or as ominous as it may appear.
The only thing we can read from the hunger stones is that droughts have happened regularly up through the ages. We're not looking at something unusual. The drought is not proof of global warming or an ice age. As for famine, such events are hardly ever related to the climate.
Famine happens when there's both crop failure and political instability preventing people from importing food. There's always a bumper crop somewhere. Trade fixes the problem. It's only when politicians sweep in with some idiotic plan or other that we get famine.
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| Hunger stone in Pima |
By Sastognuti - selbst fotografiert bei Niedrigasser vor wenigen Tagen, Public Domain, Link
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