The other name for this overshoot - where a life form expands to the point that the environment can no longer support them, for whatever reason. Threats to the food supply include plant diseases, climate collapse, pollution, and over-harvesting the soil. We're doing all these.

That's the phase humans are in now, overshoot. But there's no food shortage for now. There's only greed and refusal to feed everyone.

Link: https://senecaeffect.substack.com/p/population-collapse-learning-from

#Population #Ireland #PotatoFamine #FoodSecurity #Food

#CharlesTrevelyan, placed in charge of #famine relief by UK's #Liberal admin., on #ThisDayInHistory in 1846 wrote that the #Irish deserved to perish. "The great evil" was not the #PotatoFamine, "but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse, and turbulent character of the people."
ICYMI: How scientists finally solved the mystery of the Irish Famine. What caused Ireland's potato famine? After 168 years, scientists discovered the strain of potato blight that led to Irish devastation. https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/irish-famine-mystery-pathogen #foodhistory #potatofamine #potatoblight #research
How scientists solved the mystery of the Irish Famine

What caused Ireland's potato famine? After 168 years, scientists discovered the strain of potato blight that led to Irish devastation. 

IrishCentral.com
ICYMI: How scientists finally solved the mystery of the Irish Famine. What caused Ireland's potato famine? After 168 years, scientists discovered the strain of potato blight that led to Irish devastation. https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/irish-famine-mystery-pathogen #foodhistory #potatofamine #potatoblight #research
How scientists solved the mystery of the Irish Famine

What caused Ireland's potato famine? After 168 years, scientists discovered the strain of potato blight that led to Irish devastation. 

IrishCentral.com
A vent about EU citizenship.
My ancestors came over, destitute, in a boat, from Ireland in the 1840's famine.
At that time Ireland was in the UK so no citizenship was needed. They faced immense discrimination, poverty, and died in the Workhouse. The slum they lived in was studied by Engels, and demolished in the 1960's.
The country they came from is now still in the EU.
Because nobody applied for Irish citizenship back then, I and my children cannot apply..
#irish #citizenship #potatofamine
An old photo inspires Declan McSweeney to explore the history of the Irish Famine. Stories of human kindness add nuance to a great tragedy.
#IrishFamine #PotatoFamine
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/history/the-irish-famine-causes-impact-and-legacy/
The Irish Famine: causes, impact and legacy

An old photo inspires Declan McSweeney to explore the history of the Irish Famine. Stories of human kindness add nuance to a great tragedy.

North West Bylines
Die große Hungersnot in Irland (2020) - IMDb

Die große Hungersnot in Irland: Directed by Ruán Magan. With Liam Neeson, Cormac Ó'Gráda, Niamh Gallagher, Mary C. Kelly. The Story of the Irish Famine of the 1840s.

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So, I am of Irish (and the Scots,) background, with my great
grandparents immigrating from Ireland to Nova Scotia on the death ships during the #potatofamine, and the others immigrating directly to Virginia, long before the famine. To me, and others like me, “the luck of the Irish,” is tongue in cheek as we understand that we have been either enslaved or indentured for all of modern history. We don’t drink on St. Padriag Day, because we know he was a slave too. And he was not Irish. 1/2

Is this the feeling my Irish ancestors had when they moved to the US?

#oreida #potatofamine
https://mst3k.interlinked.me/media/eBQWekOIHpSyPeHLBVY