[RayChuang88]

The only problem is that the great famines of the 20th Century were caused by war or deliberate political policy. For example, China between 1911 and circa 1980 suffered through a revolution against the Qing Dynasty, civil war, the warlords that interrupted food supplies, the Japanese invasion of China, the war between the Nationalists and Communists between 1945 and 1949, and the ill-advised Great Leap Forward--millions of Chinese starved to death given these tumults in the country.

[MrB]

A warming, CO2 saturated earth would grow MORE food...

[TMA62]

Spot on. Many of the famines in the 20th Century are directly influenced by man and his totalitarion dictatorships. Natural famines do occur, but socialism (including the Nazi’s) and communism lead the way by trying to control everything and viewing there citizens as sub-human. We even have one of those man-induced famines in our own county right now: California.