Preparedness Lessons From The Irish Potatoe Famine

[MothMan]

Consider the following facts:

• An ongoing potato shortage continues into 2022.
• A nitrogen fertilizer shortage is expected to drive down yields worldwide, skyrocketing the costs of staples like corn and wheat.
• And perhaps worst of all, after the Ukraine invasion, Russia now owns about a third of the world’s wheat, 75 percent of its sunflower oil, and substantial amounts of barley, soy, and other grain supply chains.

Preparedness Lessons from Ireland’s Great Potato Famine - Scout

The Great Potato Famine in Ireland in the 1840s can teach us a great deal about why we shouldn’t depend on one food source or the government. Learn more.

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[ManualF150]

Not to sway this, but no where did Brandon mention helping out farmers and agriculture in his lame address the other day.

 

[livingston]

• Food exported: Sadly, historians now know that a mass amount of food was exported OUT of Ireland during the Great Potato Famine. Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum claims, “Up to 75 percent of Irish soil was devoted to wheat, oats, barley and other crops that were grown for export and shipped abroad while the people starved. […] Almost 4,000 vessels carried food from Ireland to the ports of Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool and London during 1847 […]. A wide variety of commodities left Ireland during 1847, including peas, beans, onions, rabbits, salmon, oysters, herring, lard, honey, tongues, animal skins, rags, shoes, soap, glue and seed.” The government did not help the people most in need at the time.

This tells you how much to rely on the government ....
Shortages will abound here .. Doubt starvation... In other parts of the world ... Mass starvation could occur ... In Brazil there is a drought ... For certain climate change will be blamed .. Even though they have occurred for tens of thousands of years in the past.... At one time or another

 

[GOPerfect]

Consider the following facts:

• An ongoing potato shortage continues into 2022.
• A nitrogen fertilizer shortage is expected to drive down yields worldwide, skyrocketing the costs of staples like corn and wheat.
• And perhaps worst of all, after the Ukraine invasion, Russia now owns about a third of the world’s wheat, 75 percent of its sunflower oil, and substantial amounts of barley, soy, and other grain supply chains.

Preparedness Lessons from Ireland’s Great Potato Famine - Scout

The Great Potato Famine in Ireland in the 1840s can teach us a great deal about why we shouldn’t depend on one food source or the government. Learn more.

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Much can be learned from history books.

 

[livingston]

Much can be learned from history books.

The Great Leap Forward aimed at make China a major industrial power overnight rapidly raising industrial and agricultural production. Deviating from the Soviet model, giant cooperatives (communes) and “backyard factories” were created. One of the goals was the maximum use of the labor force by dramatically altering family life. In the end industrialization was pushed too fast, resulting in the overproduction of inferior goods and the deterioration of the industrial sector as a whole. Normal market mechanisms broke down and the goods that were produced were unusuable. Agriculture was neglected and the Chinese people were exhausted. These factors combined and bad weather caused the three successive crop failures in 1959, 1960 and 1961. The widespread famine and appeared even in fertile agricultural areas. At least 15 million and possibly as many as 55 million people died in one of the deadliest famines in human history.. [Source: Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., Columbia University Press; “Countries of the World and Their Leaders” Yearbook 2009, Gale]

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My ex wife's aunt died in this famine . They lived on a farm and still died... Grain was shipped to the cities to prevent rioting ... Farmers and country folk had almost nothing