Blindboy

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1,520 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 10 Jun

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The Blindboy Podcast · Climate action for Spring with Collie Ennis · 22 Apr 2026 podcast

Smaller and smaller and smaller.

So Catholics couldn't have power.

But the fucking potato stepped in.

So what was designed to try and starve the Catholics, because if you have fuck all land and you have to grow grain, you're fucked.

But now the potato is there.

So unintentionally, the Catholic population exploded.

So that's how we went from...

I think it was about 3 million at the end of the 1600s to nearly 8 million by 1840.

It's the amount of calories that the potato could give to people.

Super cool, yeah.

Yeah.

But then, of course, it's all one type of potato.

It's all, they're all related.

And then the blight comes over from unbarred shit.

Guano.

Came over on Guano from Panama and from Peru.

And that's how the blight got to Ireland.

But then everything's gone at once.

You know, so that is a story of climate collapse and it's there in our fucking history.

Yeah.

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