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Look back TO READ of the great famine that swept the globe in the 1870s is to read of a hellscape worse than your imagination could conjure. In China, India, Brazil and beyond, after years of drought and failed harvests, millions died of starvation. People rioted. They ate diseased animals, tree roots, mud, pets and strips of leather in desperate bids to stay alive. By many contemporary accounts, cannibalism was rife. Children were sold for a meal. Corpses were bricked into their homes by family members to stop them being eaten by hungry neighbours. Bodies littered the roadsides. …
摘自《新科学家》(New Scientist)2026年10月17日,Madeleine Cuff。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。