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> Maybe a closer comparison would be famine of 1876-8, where some estimate go as high as 8.6M fatalities on a population of ~58M. Uh, this is the Bengal famine
by KingMob 2y ago
> Maybe a closer comparison would be famine of 1876-8, where some estimate go as high as 8.6M fatalities on a population of ~58M.
Uh, this is the Bengal famine the parent comment refers to, right? Ireland has never had 58M people in it.
- abeppu 2y agoUh, no, the parent comment explicitly said the Bengal famine of 1943, which had up to 3.8M deaths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943 The famine of 1876-8 in addition to being worse from the percent-causalities view, and a lifetime earlier (65 years), was also not centered in Bengal but in other regions of India generally further south and west. Different in time, place and severity, and different in the policy response in part b/c the 1943 famine was during WW2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1876%E2%80%931878 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1876%E2%80%931...