Drought and Famine: Crash Course World History #208
In which John Green teaches you a little bit about drought, which is a natural weather phenomenon, and famine, which is almost always the result of human activity. Throughout human history,...
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Hi, I'm John Green. This is Crash Course World History. Today we're going to talk about drought and famine. Really, Stan? When are we going to talk about, like, peace and happiness? I feel like we've been on kind of a sad run here at Crash Course. You know what, actually I'm gonna talk about peace and happiness, but not until the very end. In the mean time, drought and famine. Mr. Green, Mr. Green! This is science again. Famines are just natural disasters, they happen sometimes. Yeah, Me From the Past, no. For the most part, famines have historically been man-made disasters. So Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen commented that "starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteris...
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Hi, I'm John Green. This is Crash Course World History. Today we're going to talk about drought and famine. Really, Stan? When are we going to talk about, like, peace and happiness? I feel like we've been on kind of a sad run here at Crash Course. You know what, actually I'm gonna talk about peace and happiness, but not until the very end. In the mean time, drought and famine. Mr. Green, Mr. Green! This is science again. Famines are just natural disasters, they happen sometimes. Yeah, Me From the Past, no. For the most part, famines have historically been man-made disasters. So Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen commented that "starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteris...
