Posted on 04/11/2020 2:05:27 PM PDT by Hojczyk
A new wave of locusts is threatening Africa with devastation and starvation, even as the COVID-19 pandemic undermines efforts to fight the locust plague.
Parts of the continent already experienced the biggest locust outbreak in 70 years, just weeks before the coronavirus hit. Now a second wave is on its way, with some locust swarms 20 times the size of the first.
Billions of young desert locusts are coming, threatening plants and crops. This second invasion includes more developed locusts known as young adults, which are especially voracious eaters.
Some Africans view the locust swarms as more destructive than the coronavirus. And there are predictions that the locust plague might cause the coronavirus to spread even further as people band together, trying to fight off the swarms of locusts from eating all their food.
Everyone is talking about the locusts, said Yoweri Aboket, a farmer in Uganda. Once they land in your garden they do total destruction. Some people will even tell you that the locusts are more destructive than the coronavirus. There are even some who dont believe that the virus will reach here.
Gardens with essential crops like cassava are in grave danger across Kenya, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Djibouti, Eritrea, Tanzania and Congo.
The current situation in East Africa remains extremely alarming," a new UN Food and Agriculture Organization assessment said. "An increasing number of new swarms are forming in Kenya, southern Ethiopia and Somalia.
The Nairobi-based Climate Prediction and Application Center said the locusts are invading the Eastern Africa region in exceptionally large swarms like never seen before."
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Mother Gaians have been trying to convince us for years that locusts are a great source of protein, so couldn’t the starving africans just eat the locusts instead of vice versa?
Revelation 9:3
And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth.
“raining frogs”
RAINING FROOOOOOOOOOOOOGS!!!
FROM AN AMPHIBIOUS SKYYYYYYYY!!!!
(apologies to Slayer)
Not to worry...all those solar electric generating panels should be ok.
America certainly is a blessing....I hope we can hang onto it .....
What about cocoa? This could be a major disaster in the making if they interrupt the chocolate supply.
We haven’t done a very good job since the 1960s. We are turning into a surveillance police state and racing toward socialist totalitarian oppression. Never mind the impending financial collapse as our national debt races toward $40 trillion by 2025. That sounds dramatic but if you do the math with the rate of normal budget deficits during Trump’s 1st term, add in 4-5 trillion dollars for this national shutdown, then factor in all the lost tax revenue and the corporate tax write-offs going forward, $40 trillion national debt in 5 years is not a stretch.
I really need to buy more gold. Such a pisser at $1700/ounce.
They come up from the earth and sand, all of a sudden. It's really ghastly.
We have locusts here too, in the USA. Ours target toilet paper
Buy stock in fondue
I don’t know how much Drew Breed can do about world starvation...
My dad lived through the Dust Bowl years in South Dakota. He told stories about the steam trains coming through town. They’d stop, the locusts would swarm, and they’d accumulate so thick on the tracks that the driving wheels would slip when the train tried to pull out. And he said he saw swarms strip fields bare in the blink of an eye.
What’s SMOD?
My mother was a depression child in South Dakota. Locusts turned the land from green to brown in minutes.
Sweet Meteor of Death
“Why not just aerial spray the hell out of locust clouds and areas where they are?”
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