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This explanation sounds nice until you start thinking about other countries which experienced famine in the last century and don’t look anything like china...
by amvalo 8y ago
This explanation sounds nice until you start thinking about other countries which experienced famine in the last century and don’t look anything like china...
- kabdib 8y agoA great many famines in the 1900s were caused by war, unrest and "political stuff" (including forced relocation and creation of work camps / collective farms / prison farms, whatever you want to call them). There were some famines directly related to drought, but they look relatively minor compared to the ones with obvious human agency.
- maxxxxx 8y agoWhat famines were there where not either the government caused or ignored the problem, a colonial power ignored or caused the problem or a war was going on?
- Joakal 8y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine Here's a cut n paste Chinese scholars had kept count of 1,828 instances of famine from 108 BC to 1911 in one province or another—an average of close to one famine per year.[50] From 1333 to 1337 a terrible famine killed 6 million Chinese. The four famines of 1810, 1811, 1846, and 1849 are said to have killed no fewer than 45 million people.[51] Japan experienced more than 130 famines between 1603 and 1868.[52]
- Retric 8y agoThat's not even close to answering the question. People dying in a regional famine is the fault of the government. More widely crop failure and famine are very different things. Consider, Ireland was exporting food during the Irish potato famine.
- coldtea 8y agoMost of those countries, like Uganda, look worse (in the sense that the average Chinese wouldn't pick to live in Uganda over China, nor it would give them more wealth or political freedom). As for the others, the famines there were usually caused by external forces that have stopped being (e.g. foreign occupation, etc), so not the same.
- user982 8y agoThe grandparent post makes two unrelated claims: (1) China's recent famine is why it is extremely strict. (2) Modern famines are man-made. The parent post seems to be responding to (1). Sibling posts appear to think the parent post is addressing (2)?
- muthdra 8y agoI'm thinking about my grandma, who I see everyday, whose parents came from Ukraine in the beginning of the last century; their 3 month old daughter along with them in a cargo ship.