This was all well and good in theory (it wasn’t though), but unfortunately people in power saw the famine in Ireland and thought ‘that’s happening in practice, that is. Sod it, let’s give this a try.’ Sir Charles Trevelyan, colonial administrator in charge of famine relief to Ireland, took Malthus’s theory of ‘just let them die’ and applied it to the country he was in charge of specifically keeping alive and well.
