The potato famine is not an example of the failure of a localized and
diversified economy. Relying almost entirely on a single crop is
certainly not diversification and in the case of Ireland, where the
famine was most acute, the control England exercised over the country
forcing the Irish population onto smaller and smaller plots of
marginal land (necessitating reliance on the single crop that could
be cultivated on such land) while forcibly maintaining the exports of
food from Ireland while people were starving is not an example of a
'local' economy. Moreover, the current program of globalization has
nothing in common with ancient population migrations. Globalism, in
its current form of political/economic philosophy, specifically
excludes the free motion of labor (people, that is), as do most so
called 'free trade' programs.
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