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360 Billion & Growing: Locust Plague Of "Biblical Proportions" Destroys Crops Across Middle East, Africa
The Economic Collapse ^ | February 3, 2020 | Michael Snyder

Posted on 02/11/2020 2:58:00 AM PST by Windflier

What we are witnessing in east Africa and across much of the Middle East right now is hard to believe. 360 billion locusts are eating everything in sight, and UN officials are warning that this plague of “Biblical proportions” could get many times worse over the next several months.

Desert locusts can travel up to 93 miles a day, and each adult can consume the equivalent of its own weight in food every 24 hours. These voracious little creatures are traveling in absolutely colossal swarms that are up to 40 miles wide, and they continue to push into new areas. If urgent action is not taken on a massive scale, millions upon millions of people could soon have next to nothing to eat.

I have previously written about the horrors that this plague is causing in east Africa, but many people don’t realize that this plague is devastating crops throughout the Middle East as well.

In fact, the government of Pakistan just declared a national emergency because of these locusts…

A locust plague is wreaking havoc in Pakistan as ‘unprecedented and alarming’ swarms ravage crops as shocking video shows millions of the insects sweeping through Saudi Arabia.

Pakistan’s government declared a national emergency at the weekend after an infestation of desert locusts arrived in eastern Pakistan.

In Saudi Arabia, the swarms have been so thick at times that they have completely blocked out the sun, and video footage coming out of that country is getting attention all over the world…

Meanwhile swarms of locusts have been milling the skies in Saudi Arabia, with one video circulating online showing the sky saturated with the insects.

Another shows a tree in Saudi Arabia crawling with desert locusts, which consume their own body weight in food each day.

But of course east Africa remains the hardest hit region, and UN officials are warning that a horrible famine could rapidly develop as a result of this plague.


TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: locusts
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Meanwhile, libs in the West are losing their minds over non-existent 'climate change'.
1 posted on 02/11/2020 2:58:00 AM PST by Windflier
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To: Windflier

God moves in mysterious ways...


2 posted on 02/11/2020 3:02:14 AM PST by Shady (One More Time: CO2 is PLANT FOOD! Without it we die. Any questions?)
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To: Windflier

Don’t be silly. Climate change caused this. Never in history has there been locusts in that part of the world.


3 posted on 02/11/2020 3:05:54 AM PST by pas
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To: Windflier

Get out the chocolate fondue pakis, Saudis, jihadists


4 posted on 02/11/2020 3:09:27 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nick dip .com)
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To: pas
;-)
5 posted on 02/11/2020 3:11:03 AM PST by Windflier (Torches and pitchforks ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

EAT the locusts. Prepare them something like shrimp. Probably delicious!


6 posted on 02/11/2020 3:31:58 AM PST by Concentrate (ex-texan was right and Always Right was wrong, which is why we lost the election.)
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“...a horrible famine could rapidly develop as a result of this plague.”

How could there be a famine? The greenies keep telling us that bugs are really good to eat.


7 posted on 02/11/2020 3:34:52 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Windflier

Give everyone nets.

Locust are good eatin...


8 posted on 02/11/2020 3:39:51 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: Windflier

Locust, coronavirus, democratc socialists...

…Which plague is next, Lord?


9 posted on 02/11/2020 3:41:06 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Windflier

Nuke them!


10 posted on 02/11/2020 3:43:21 AM PST by Nateman ( Unless the left is screaming you are doing it wrong.)
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Yep, if these locusts are anything like the good ol American grasshopper, pop it's hopper legs off and down the hatch.

Don't taste like chicken, but next best thing to it

11 posted on 02/11/2020 3:46:43 AM PST by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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“360 billion locusts...”

Boy - how’d ya like to be the person that had to count them all!?

At least they left the significant figure at 10 billion. Not like the Chinese, that say something like 1,167 people have died of the virus.


12 posted on 02/11/2020 3:54:18 AM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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https://countrymeters.info/en/World

Aug 11, 2019 · According to our estimations, daily change rates of world population in 2020 will be the following: 427,457 live births average per day (17,810.72 in an hour) 166,552 deaths average per day (6,939.68 in an hour) The population of World will be increasing by 262,295 persons daily in 2020.
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Disease, abortions and armed conflict are part of the life/death cycle.


13 posted on 02/11/2020 3:54:31 AM PST by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: Windflier

Why don’t they just fire shotgun pellets into the sky to kill off the locusts? I mean how could it not be that easy.


14 posted on 02/11/2020 4:02:02 AM PST by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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To: Trumpet 1

Crop duster would perhaps work too.


15 posted on 02/11/2020 4:07:18 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Windflier

Headed to China?


16 posted on 02/11/2020 4:21:35 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Windflier

Last summer they went nuts about Brazil’s fires, then Australia’s fires(which are currently being rained on). As soon as they get Iowa behind them, this “never before!” locust thing caused by climate change, will be addressed by each candidate at a future primary.


17 posted on 02/11/2020 4:34:56 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Dixie Yooper

It’s Trump’s fault...


18 posted on 02/11/2020 4:51:17 AM PST by CaptainKip
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To: CaptainKip

Instead of better ideas, RESISTANCE!


19 posted on 02/11/2020 4:55:01 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Windflier

Let them eat oil.

It’s funny-THEY have an abundance of oil and gouge the s*&t out of everyone else who doesn’t.

The US has wheat and we always help in those areas with draught, flood or what ever natural disaster they experience. I am sure WE don’t gouge.


20 posted on 02/11/2020 4:55:38 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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