take lessons from the Irish potato famine
Yep, most people don't know that the Irish Potato famine was manufactured by European intellectuals.
Famine due to unequal distribution of food. Famine is the result of exploitation.
Land was owned by absentee landlords and charged exorbitant rent. The most destitute people on earth.
The british took the best farmland to raise beef for England, leaving the peasants the worst soil which was still capable of growing potatoes.
So because of their poverty the only thing Irish peasants had to eat were potatoes and when the blight hit it caused many to starve to death. In 1845 a third of the crop was lost. In 1846 75% of the crop was lost. During this time of famine enough cows, ships, pigs and grain were being exported out of Ireland to feed the starving people. At first the government helped out the poor. But then a new government came in with the philosophy that the free market will solve this (let them starve). They saw the famine as a necessary way to reduce the population. When they did feed the starving it was only for those who were destitute, owning no land. In this way those that survived would survive as penniless slaves of the ruling elite. You want to eat, sell everything you own to your landlords first.
Then plague followed (Typhus, dysentery and cholera) just like the horsemen of the apocalypse. So learn this lesson well. So then what did the Irish do? Begging, crime, prostitution and even cannibalism. So what do you do to maintain order? British sent their army, not food. What was the famine all about, really? Turning the Irish into slaves, killing all those they didn't need, and giving all the land to the landlords, elite ruling class.
Americans sent food and the British government imposed huge import tax on the famine relief. This was not about saving lives, it was all about enriching the ruling class.
So what lesson do we learn -- this famine was due to the ruthless exploitation of the ruling class over the peasants. But it got worse, they then evicted all the poor Irish.
By the end of the famine about 20% or 2 million Irish had died. Another 2 million had immigrated.
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