{"quotes":[{"text":"Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","basic-necessities","deep","dictum","dictums","diet","epigram","epigrams","famine","fat","food","food-shortage","gnome","gnomes","humor","humour","hunger","hungry","insightful","ironic","irony","made-me-think","make-you-think","malnutrition","maxim","maxims","nutrients","obese","obesity","overweight","paradox","paradoxical","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","puzzle","puzzling","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","starvation","starve","thought-provoking","thoughtful","underweight"],"id":52275,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"When the productive lands lose their essence, our productive lives shall least have essence!","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["deforestation","environment","food-shortage","soil"],"id":138758,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"That’s the thing about the collapse of civilization, Blake. It never happens according to plan – there’s no slavering horde of zombies. No actinic flash of thermonuclear war. No Earth-shuddering asteroid. The end comes in unforeseen ways; the stock market collapses, and then the banks, and then there is no food in the supermarkets, or the communications system goes down completely and inevitably, and previously amiable co-workers find themselves wrestling over the last remaining cookie that someone brought in before all the madness began.","author":"Mark A. Rayner","tags":["according-to-plan","apocalypse","armageddon","asteroid","bank-failure","blake-given","chaos","civilization","collapse","communication","communication-system","communication-systems","communications","cookie","cookies","end","end-of-the-world","end-times","flash","food-rationing","food-shortage","food-shortages","food-storage","madness","not-with-a-bang","nuclear","plan","planning","plans","stock-market-collapse","the-end","thermo-nuclear","thermonuclear","war","with-a-whimper","world-ending","world-ends","wrestle","wrestling","zombie","zombies"],"id":323630,"author_id":"Mark+A.+Rayner"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}