Quote Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult View Post
1m dead and 2m emigrated, roughly.

1877-8 in India was an El-Ni?o famine and both Moghul India and Qing China had far more success historically with dealing with their El-Ni?o famines. Because for all their myriad faults, the Moghuls and the Qing Chinese weren't Tory free-market obsessives.

Btw, "the root causes" - spuds are tubers, not roots.

{Well, according to google anyway. I haven't got a clue what either term means and what the differences are. We've only grown herbs, and last year, a few leeks and spring onions along with ****loads of cucumbers.

But given how quickly those green feckers took over our garden, the Paddies should just have planted them instead of spuds and then Russel could have fed them all on cucumber sarnies. If our garden last summer was anything to go by, a bit of rain and a bit of sunshine would have seen everywhere between Cork and Londonderry covered in cucumbers. It was like Day of the Triffids - if you could make a Greek Salad out of triffids.}
Put simply, a tuber is a swelling within the stem of a plant, rather than a product of the root

And yes, I only know that because of my interest in the hunger.

The reference to root causes was not intended as a pun.