In which John Green teaches you a little bit about drought, which is a natural weather phenomenon, and famine, which is almost always the result of human activity. Throughout human history, when food shortages strike humanity, there was food around. There was just a failure to connect those people with the food that would keep them alive. There are a lot of reasons that food distribution breaks down, and John is going to teach you about them in the context of the late-19th century famines that struck British India.
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4:24 I like this map. I like it very very much.
It's crazy how right he was about hoarding food during shortages. We've got farmers in America killing pigs and mowing over crop fields during this pandemic.
Dang, thanks for the specific example of a bottled water during a hurricane in Florida… And thank you for not making it any more specific.
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The Indian famines don't show that capitalism is the problem. They were caused by excessive taxation, which has nothing to do with 'laissez faire'. You also didn't mention that the famine that resulted from Mao's 'Great Leap Forward' was the result of the nature of communist production, and not merely totalitarianism, which in any case is not unrelated to the nature of communist production.
Instead of water bottle price, think about toilet paper price in 2020 huh?
Market forces didnt make the famine in British indie it like you explained . because of high taxes, I don't think that is free market capitalism
As a spanish speaker, it's weird to me when he says "El niño".
1:21 actually that famine killed around 40m people not 10m
Could you also make an episode about Holodomor? Many people still do not know about it and the extent of soviet terror.
Shortages or panic can cost prices to go up then people who can’t afford to buy starve to death
Where does that sound similar
Cough cough toilet paper
The British in India behaved like Stalin did in Ukraine.
Your Indian map doesn't include Kashmir in it. Why?
For everyone reminding us of the Irish famine, it was mostly due to crop failure and not really inefficient, or mostly deliberate misallocation of food. Moreover, the Indians who died due to British rule and the Bengal famine are almost 4 times those who died in the Irish potato famine. Gimme some credit here, dude. Also, I can't help feeling you want that mentioned because it's one of the few things that happened in Ireland worth mentioning. Seriously, no offence intended.
Thanks for mentioning Holodomor in Ukraine, that was awfully brutal for our nation
1627 cal/ day
Why did YouTube suggest this to me ?
That Bengal governor was probably fat and lazy and eating big meals with meat and booze three times a day.
You're opening statement is already becoming true to me. Makes me wonder, there is crop failure and there is power hungry dickheads owning the Egyptian Nile in a empire that relies on it.
Great Britain is not great at all
Madras famine of 1887 was horrific
USSR wasn't just Ukraine and Russia.
The British seem to be expert at losing colonies due to taxation.
Sounds familiar
Why is she is a wedding dress?
Commie
Embrace for the next one
Ha! "North Eastern South America"? LOL