Great Quote about the Colombian Exchange Yin Yang

So I was watching this great courses snippet from lunch from the turning points in american history lectures and he was talking about the colombian exchange so i looked it up on Wikipedia and oh my goodness, I had no idea that potatoes are not native to Ireland!  Check out what else is going on here! Is this an argument for globalization or no, look at the bad that came along with all this good below this as well! the good and the bad linked again, we havent' seen this before though have we students!  indeed, satan is always just one step behind us up the ladder of the GOOD, isn't he?

Part of the GOOD: Before the Columbian Exchange, there were no oranges in Florida, no bananas in Ecuador, no paprika in Hungary, no tomatoes in Italy, no potatoes in Ireland, no coffee in Colombia, no pineapples in Hawaii, no rubber trees in Africa, no cattle in Texas, no donkeys in Mexico, no chili peppersin Thailand or India, and no chocolate in Switzerland.

Devastation of the less good: The smallpox epidemics are believed to have resulted in the largest death tolls among Native Americans, surpassing any wars and far exceeding the loss of life due to the Black Death in Europe.  It is estimated that upwards of 80–95 percent of the Native American population died in these epidemics within the first 100–150 years following 1492; the most affected regions in the Americas lost 100% of their population.