The Belgorod Brit differentiates between natural and man-made famine. What will happen when the food runs out, or becomes too expensive to buy for the masses? In the film, he describes the Great Irish Famine of 1739-1741. Nearly half a million people lost their lives due to unseasonably cold weather. The reaction of the authorities was to pull together to relieve the hunger, and the rich and the middle classes united in their efforts to save lives, regardless of politics or religion.

In the podcast, BB recounts the other Irish famine of the 1840s. What started as a natural catastrophe was compounded by political and financial machinations. Irish landlords saw it as a way to rid themselves of 'useless eaters' in favour of an expansion of cash crops and animal husbandry for export. In Westminster, the Tories, who believed their duty lay in managing the people over whom God had given them control, gave way to the Liberal Whigs, who believed that markets were a form of providential control and that the famine was God's punishment for the heretics and the indigent.

What will happen when the resources necessary to feed our societies become scarce or too expensive? Will we come together and help each other, or will we see it as a way to cut away the deadwood. BB knows what our ruling classes think, but he is not sure what you think.

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