The causes, timeframes and response of both camalties are completly different,
I am not going to get into a big discussion on the causes of the Irish "famine" but it was nothing to do
with crop failure or overpopulation. It was a direct result of the
english race and it's
lust for money and land.I suggest u read Cecil Woodham-Smith The Great Hunger (1962),
Heres an extract
The potato was introduced to Ireland as a garden crop of the gentry. By the late seventeenth century it had become widespread as a supplementary rather than a principal food, as the main diet still revolved around butter, milk and grain products. In the first two decades of the eighteenth century, however, it became a base food of the poor, especially in winter.[23] The expansion of the economy between 1760 and 1815 saw the potato make inroads in the diet of the people and become a staple food all the year round for the cottier and small farm class.[24]
The potato's spread was essential to the development of the cottier system, delivering an extremely cheap workforce, but at the cost of lower living standards. For the labourer it was essentially a potato wage that shaped the expanding agrarian economy.[24] The expansion of tillage led to an inevitable expansion of the potato acreage, and an expansion of the cottier class. By 1841, there were over half a million cottiers, with 1.75 million dependents. The principal beneficiary of this system was the English consumer.[24]
The Celtic grazing lands of... Ireland had been used to pasture cows for centuries. The British colonized... the Irish, transforming much of their countryside into an extended grazing land to raise cattle for a hungry consumer market at home... The British taste for beef had a devastating impact on the impoverished and disenfranchised people of... Ireland... Pushed off the best pasture land and forced to farm smaller plots of marginal land, the Irish turned to the potato, a crop that could be grown abundantly in less favorable soil. Eventually, cows took over much of Ireland, leaving the native population virtually dependent on the potato for survival.
Regarding the ethipohia situtain and the situation in parts of developing world like Haiti and africa.
60% of haiti GDP before the earthquake was AID without with the island would be in famine.
Haiti: Mud cakes become staple diet as cost of food soars beyond a family's reach | World news | The Guardian
We are seeing unsubstainable non-organic popualtion growth based on Massive and contious food aid
The key word being contious.
NOt food aid that arrives for a drought or hurriane etc but contious, year in year out.
What will happen to these huges populations if this food aid much of which grown by Farmers in Amercias
Breadbasket if this aid is cut off some how. A Famine of epic propations. The poulations of Countries and territioes should reflect the local resoucres.
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