“What does starvation feel like?” by Elijah Whipple

There are a couple experiences that have made me think of this question. One happened in the fall. As I walked around a neighborhood near where I lived, I noticed large mossy spheres that seemed to be growing on all the rose bushes I passed. Eventually, I came to a bush that wasn't on anyone's property and crushed one of the mossy spheres in my hand. I couldn't see anything in particular, but I suspected it was the doing of some insect. I realized there were blackened versions of the galls hanging from the bushes, too, and crushed some of those. I only crushed a few, and found little dead flies inside a couple of them. My guess is that those rose gall wasps never made it out of the spaces they chewed for themselves as larvae and starved to death inside of the dark rooms. Another was when [...] ---Outline:(05:18) Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick - A history of North Korea in the 1990s(15:10) Night by Elie Weisel - A memoir of a Holocaust survivor(17:54) Madagascar 2021-2022(19:46) Concluding remarks--- First published: December 5th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/jgSEPhxfJtbZYyTcb/what-does-starvation-feel-like --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.