At risk of sounding 'heartless', one tenth of those committed suicides are farmers and agricultural laborers, is that normal? Do we have other statistics to compare it to?
See, even the farmers suicide in India since the last three decades can be blamed (by WaPo) on Trump pulling out of Paris Accord.
Just wait till these 196 (minus US, now probably minus Turkey) countries realize there are NO MORE money to be redistributed (from the US) .......
May be? I’m betting the suicides are related to unicorn problems...
What a freaking joke!!
There was no global warming thirty years ago.
I think they may also be linked to living in India.
Beware spurious correlations! (http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations)
Correlation = Causation yet again.
How many deaths linked to abortion, WaPo?
Using tragic deaths for political purposes........
How many suicides in the 1800’s??
Liberals were never any good at science, just propaganda.
Panic pushers have blood on their hands.
“a researcher at the University of California at Berkeley”
Stopped reading right there.....I’m out.
Seriously, though — I think it is much more likely to be linked to Hinduism.
You see, Hindus believe you get a reset when you die; so it’s not as big a deal — not nearly so final — as we Westerners tend to believe.
More automobile accidents occur when more ice cream cones are sold, therefore ice cream cones cause car accidents.
Sheesh do these people think we’re idiots? don’t answer that!
The suicides are linked to the governments price-fixing, small size farms, lack of modern methods in farming and farm produce storage. The net result is tons of small very indebted farmers who cannot see paying off their loans even if their little farm gets a good harvest. Those are the reasons, not “climate change”.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-40184788
I have been to India. 59,000 farmers offing themselves seems like a low number to me.
Several years ago it was revealed that India farmets were committing suicide because Monsanto’s gmo rice was a disaster for them. Failed crops meant ruin, suicide was the only way to save their family.
fake news
over the last 30 years- farmers have committed suicides in direct relation to increasing abortions world-wide- as abortions increased- so did suicides by farmers-
either that or it was the invention of bubblicious bubble gum- ever since the invention of this fantastic bubble gum farmers suicides have increased exponentially-
however, the increase could also correspond with increased consumption of TAB diet soda- it can’t be just coincidence that TAB consumption and suicide deaths increased at the same time
Or- it ‘could be’
Probably stress from trying to grow crops in a desert.
Sam Kinison was crude but his solution for global hunger had some truth in it. Send them some boxes and a uhaul truck. It’s a desert!! Nothing grows there!! Nothings going to grow there!!!
Bah. It’s probably over the monetary change that India has been slashburning its lower tier demographics.
The change from a cash-based system to a demonitized one is a more reasonable explanation than admitting to the cashless cabal that people are being hurt and badly by this wholesale plunge into new system.