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A short piece says there is a "child famine" in the Great Plains: North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming are not producing enough children to sustain their small towns.
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.
They are suffering an accountability famine.
The exact casualty figure will never be known, but it is estimated that 5,000 died immediately and between 40,000 and 60,000 perished as a result of secondary injuries and the ensuing famine and pestilence.
Like the Holocaust for the Jews or slavery for African-Americans, the potato famine is the omnipresent, haunting presence in Irish history.