Just Potatoes (Part 1)

How a real-world dystopia led to one of history's greatest human tragedies in the Irish Potato Famine

Nature knows a thousand ways to kill a man.

Natural disasters, crop failures, and disease have always been major threats to human survival. But we humans are as stubborn, resilient, and innovative as our bodies are vulnerable. When calamity strikes, we have a knack for withstanding and overcoming—unless something besides nature stands in our way. The gr…