> I hate this fake idea that everyone in the past was one bad harvest from starvation. Perhaps one was/is sometimes a stretch, but starvation and famine were a

> I hate this fake idea that everyone in the past was one bad harvest from starvation. Perhaps one was/is sometimes a stretch, but starvation and famine were a thing: > Over two million people died in two famines in France between 1693 and 1710. Both famines were made worse by ongoing wars.[127] > As late as the 1690s, Scotland experienced famine which reduced the population of parts of Scotland by at least 15%.[128] > The Great Famine of 1695–1697 may have killed a third of the Finnish population.[129] and roughly 10% of Norway's population.[130] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine#17th_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine#17th_century * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1695–1697 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1695–1697 But even a single year is not unreasonable: > The Great Famine, which lasted from 1770 until 1771, killed about one tenth of Czech lands' population, or 250,000 inhabitants, and radicalised countrysides leading to peasant uprisings.[135] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine#18th_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine#18th_century * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famines_in_Czech_lands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famines_in_Czech_lands