Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years [2006, 2007] by Fred S. Singer Dennis T. Avery

Author:Fred S. Singer,Dennis T. Avery [Singer, Fred S.; Avery, Dennis T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2006-09-16T04:00:00+00:00

TWENTIETH-CENTURY FAMINES DUE TO "FAILURES OF GOVERNMENT"

The great famines of recent history have not been caused by climate or weather problems. Primarily, they have been caused by "failures of government."

• In the 1930s, the Soviet Union deliberately starved millions of small farmers and their families (the total death toll was probably more than seven million) as a way for the government to take control of their land for collective farms.

• In 1943, as many as three million people died in what is now Bangladesh. The rice crop was smaller that year than in 1942. However, one of the major problems was that the wartime boom had given urban workers enough buying power to bid the available food away from the landless poor of the countryside. The British administration, attempting to stave off Japanese invasion, paid little attention to the rural hunger until it was too late.

• In 1959, China's Chairman Mao Tse-tung dragooned tens of millions of small farmers into communal farms. Rural officials then systematically overstated the communal farms' food production to curry favor with Chairman Mao. When the central government demanded one-third of the inflated harvest numbers, the farmers were left with virtually no food. During the following two years, the farmers were too weak to plant or care for crops and the famine spread to the cities as well. More than 30 million people died.

• In 1984-1985, Ethiopia was under the rule of a Stalinist-like military junta. After a low grain harvest, Western nations donated both food and transportation but the junta used much of the food to feed its troops. Ordinary people got food only if they left their small farm-holdings in the anti-junta highlands and took up new land of unknown sustainability far away. A million people may have starved before the junta was eventually deposed.

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