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Similarly, countering the commendable If you don't have an old person in the house, buy one , we have the less generous In time of famine the old have teeth and What the devil accomplished in a year, an old woman may accomplish in an hour.
There are at least a dozen examples of man-made ecological disasters that led to famine and widespread devastation, and at least a couple of major civilizations that collapsed under the weight of ecological mismanagement.
Eventually famine compelled Abraham’s tribes to move into Egypt and into captivity.
The Greek myth of Pandora's box is one that most of us recall vaguely: though Pandora was told not to open that box, of course she did--at which point all manner of evils flew out, making our world one of pestilence, famine, death, and destruction.
His understanding of the famine and the British government's role in it--at least as demonstrated in this piece--is shallow, at best.