By Brian Merchant / Motherboard
What’s the number one reason we riot? The plausible, justifiable motivations of trampled-upon humanfolk to fight back are many—poverty, oppression, disenfranchisement, etc—but the big one is more primal than any of the above. It’s hunger, plain and simple. If there’s a single factor that reliably sparks social unrest, it’s food becoming too scarce or too expensive.
A graph you need to see concerning the connection between riots and food prices, some vital information that you should know, and why that means we're about one year away from global food riots...
Alas, he is right. I see the patterns moving in this direction, but it will be worse than even the theorist thinks.