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I think more people should be storing a substantial amount of food.
It's not likely you'll need it, but as with
reusable
masks the cost is low enough I think it's usually worth it.
It's hard for me to really imagine living through a famine. The world as
I have experienced it has been one of abundant calories, where people
are generally more worried about getting too many than too few.
Essentially no one dies in the US from food unavailability. Globally,
however, it's different: each year millions
die from hunger.
If you look at the circumstances of modern famines, they're downstream
from systems failing. Society was functioning well enough that most
people got enough calories, then something went seriously wrong, most
likely war. This is one of the reasons that it's hard to use
donations to reduce hunger deaths: getting food to people stuck in war
zones is very hard.
This means from an altruistic perspective I feel torn: the current
situation is horrible, but it's also not where I think my donations
would go farthest and so it's not where I donate. This is
the painful reality of living in a world [...]
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First published:
February 23rd, 2026
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hMBZHXA6vjj8xhCfw/storing-food
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By LessWrongI think more people should be storing a substantial amount of food.
It's not likely you'll need it, but as with
reusable
masks the cost is low enough I think it's usually worth it.
It's hard for me to really imagine living through a famine. The world as
I have experienced it has been one of abundant calories, where people
are generally more worried about getting too many than too few.
Essentially no one dies in the US from food unavailability. Globally,
however, it's different: each year millions
die from hunger.
If you look at the circumstances of modern famines, they're downstream
from systems failing. Society was functioning well enough that most
people got enough calories, then something went seriously wrong, most
likely war. This is one of the reasons that it's hard to use
donations to reduce hunger deaths: getting food to people stuck in war
zones is very hard.
This means from an altruistic perspective I feel torn: the current
situation is horrible, but it's also not where I think my donations
would go farthest and so it's not where I donate. This is
the painful reality of living in a world [...]
---
First published:
February 23rd, 2026
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hMBZHXA6vjj8xhCfw/storing-food
---
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
---
Images from the article:
Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.
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