Crash Course World History - Season 2 Episode 8 Drought and Famine
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, when food shortages strike humanity, there was food around. There was just a failure to connect those people with the food that would keep them alive. There are a lot of reasons that food distribution breaks down, and John is going to teach you about them in the context of the late-19th century famines that struck British India.
Year: 2015
Genre: Documentary
Country: United States of America
Studio: YouTube
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Cast: John Green
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First Air Date: Jan 26, 2012
Last Air date: Apr 04, 2015
Season: 2 Season
Episode: 72 Episode
Runtime: 12 minutes
IMDb: 6.70/10 by 3.00 users
Popularity: 9.775
Language: English
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