More On Romm’s “Worst Drought In China In 200 Years”

DEC 1877 (through 1878)
THE DROUGHT AND FAMINE IN NORTH CHINA
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/5920323?

AUGUST 1878
It is officially announced that 7,000,000 persons have died of “famine in China.”
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/2979891?

JULY 1893
A TERRIBLE FAMINE. DREADFUL REPORTS FROM CHINA: PARENTS SELLING THEIR CHILDREN. DEAD BODIES DEVOURED
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/3563623?

JUNE 1896
FAMINE IN TONQUIN. PEOPLE DYING IN THOUSANDS.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/9328939?

NOV 1927
Nine million Inhabitants of the Shantung province are starving owing to a drought, visitation of locusts, civil war, and banditry.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/24197857?

h/t to reader Ivan

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One Response to More On Romm’s “Worst Drought In China In 200 Years”

  1. Nobama says:

    This is why they confiscated all the SUV’s in china in the late 1800s.

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