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Guardian: Natural sciences can predict certain things quite well once they have established particular natural laws. But political and social sciences are notoriously bad at it. This is not surprising. Human events are deeply unpredictable, so we tend not to be too hard on ourselves when we miss things like the Arab spring.
But should we be much harder on ourselves when we miss a famine? Surely, there is quite a lot of hard science in a famine – indicators of drought, rising food prices, distressed asset......
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Why east Africa’s famine warning was not heeded
Posted by Guardian: Hugo Slim on January 18th, 2012
Posted in Water Conservation