{"id":5969,"date":"2012-09-12T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5969"},"modified":"2012-09-11T23:25:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T03:25:29","slug":"cloudy-with-a-strong-chance-of-riots-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/cloudy-with-a-strong-chance-of-riots-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloudy With A Strong Chance Of Riots Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/091212_0257_CloudyWithA1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to some analysts who arguably sort-of predicted the Arab spring, there will be widespread global riots next year, writes Brian Merchant:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Statistics show that the single greatest driving factor in creating unrest and riots is hunger. The higher the food price, the greater the likelihood of riots.<\/li>\n<li>A food price index of around 220 seems to just about guarantee riots. So far this year the world has hovered within the 210-216 range \u2013 perilously close to disaster.<\/li>\n<li>But food prices are expected to continue to rise, and the experts predict that in August 2013 the probability of riots will be extremely high.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the methodology of the study and see an excellent visualization of the relationship over <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/2012\/9\/10\/we-are-now-one-year-away-from-global-riots-complex-systems-theorists-say\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/2012\/9\/10\/we-are-now-one-year-away-from-global-riots-complex-systems-theorists-say\">Mother Board<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to some analysts who arguably sort-of predicted the Arab spring, there will be widespread global riots next year, writes Brian Merchant: Statistics show that the single greatest driving factor in creating unrest and riots is hunger. The higher the food price, the greater the likelihood of riots. A food price index of around 220 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/091212_0257_CloudyWithA1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5969"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5972,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions\/5972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}