Three Years of Natural Disasters ??????
From 1958 to 1961, fifteen million people died in China due to a horrific drought, floods, and government stupidity. We can only hope that ‘Global Climate Disruption’ prevents this from happening again.
In 1960, at least some degree of drought and other bad weather affected 55 percent of cultivated land , while an estimated 60% of agricultural land received no rain at all. The Encyclopædia Britannica yearbooks from 1958 to 1962 also reported abnormal weather, followed by droughts and floods. This included 30 inches (760 mm) of rain in Hong Kong across five days in June 1959, part of a pattern that hit all of Southern China.
