To: grundle
Ireland had a large population when the Potatoe famine hit, but it was poor food distribution that caused the famine to kill so many people. "Overpopulation" is the neo-Malthusian's simplistic answer to complex questions.
6 posted on
01/19/2002 2:32:18 PM PST by
RobbyS
To: RobbyS;Happygal
Ireland had a large population when the Potatoe famine hit, but it was poor food distribution that caused the famine to kill so many people.Is "poor food distribution" a nice way to say "British indifference to the dying Irish"?
8 posted on
01/19/2002 2:49:47 PM PST by
jla
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