[lemoncucumber]

"Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World" is a great book by Mike Davis about similar famines in the late 19th century caused by colonial powers putting profits and the sanctity of markets above human lives during periods when forces in the natural world impacted food production (climate swings in this case).

[giraffe_lady]

One of the most interesting and informative books I've ever read. Depressing as fuck though.

[cmrdporcupine]

Such an amazing writer and yet I never want to read his work because... yeah.

We lost a real giant.

[morkalork]

Eerie.