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Do you have an explanation for why there has never been a famine so far in the 231-year history of the US?
by hollerith 6y ago
Do you have an explanation for why there has never been a famine so far in the 231-year history of the US?
- heavyset_go 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Lawrence_Island_famine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Lawrence_Island_famine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl
- bmmayer1 6y agoThe St. Lawrence Island famine is interesting -- though a very small incident that seems more due to extreme geographical isolation than anything else. The word "famine" doesn't appear once in the 5000+ word article on the Dust Bowl; and, we know it wasn't really a famine. Poverty-inducing, for sure, but mass starvation is an entirely different type of disaster that is almost always man-made by bad economic policy or war, which I believe is what OP's point was.
- crygin 6y agoAs the sibling comment notes, there have been, but one major reason they are not more common is the mysterious extinction of the Rocky Mountain Locust in the late 19th century, leaving North America as the only continent (other than Antarctica) without an extant locust species: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_locust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_locust