Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

The Real Reasons Africa Has Another Locust Plague
Townhall.com ^ | March 21, 2020 | Paul Driessen,

Posted on 03/21/2020 4:29:10 AM PDT by Kaslin

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-85 next last
To: Kaslin

Transport the locusts to China.
WINNING!


21 posted on 03/21/2020 5:34:01 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: yldstrk

Liberalism *kills*.


22 posted on 03/21/2020 5:34:51 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Wpin

How much have you donated so far?


23 posted on 03/21/2020 5:37:53 AM PDT by Ken H (Best SOTU ever!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

So what?


24 posted on 03/21/2020 5:41:46 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

The gist of it:

These 2019-2020 swarms originated in the vast deserts of Oman, Somalia and Yemen, parts of which are lawless and war-torn. parts of which are lawless and war-torn. That made it difficult and dangerous to monitor them for the emergence of billions of “hoppers,” following tumultuous downpours two years ago – or to spray them with insecticides when they were most vulnerable, before they grew wings and could fly hours on end, thousands of miles...

it seems nothing will be allowed to get in the way of the UN, EU and environmentalist obsession with climate change as the single greatest threat facing humanity and planet.

When it comes to insect control, the driving force is aid money totally skewed to agro-ecology and its ideological focus on “food sovereignty” and “traditional subsistence farming,” with wood plows and oxen, “in harmony with nature,” free from Western seeds, fertilizers, tractors and, above all, pesticides.


25 posted on 03/21/2020 5:42:39 AM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: grey_whiskers

Good idea.


26 posted on 03/21/2020 5:43:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Pretty good video here documentary here: https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/311968/s01_e04_locusts


27 posted on 03/21/2020 5:44:44 AM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: redfreedom

Excellent post.


28 posted on 03/21/2020 5:45:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin
“Across Somalia, desert locusts in a swarm the size of Manhattan have destroyed a swath of farmland as big as Oklahoma,”

Really?

Ima guessin' them bugs be the size of the ones in THEM! by now!

29 posted on 03/21/2020 5:49:14 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Horrifying. I can’t imagine it. It is like a Hitchcock movie with a sad ending. There is so much suffering in the world. It doesn’t end. And sadly, much of it is avoidable in this modern day and age.


30 posted on 03/21/2020 5:51:14 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world but loses his soul?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Wpin
Such a small price to help stave off tens of millions from starvation...of course we should do it. How can we not?

Hell; we can't even stop our OWN plague of locusts!!


31 posted on 03/21/2020 5:53:48 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

I am always said I will say it again:

“Better life through the miracle of chemicals!”

JoMa


32 posted on 03/21/2020 5:53:52 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: daniel1212

Heck; we’ve got ‘food deserts’ right here in central Indiana.


33 posted on 03/21/2020 5:55:22 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: TheZMan

Yep.


34 posted on 03/21/2020 5:55:34 AM PDT by Eagles6
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: daniel1212

Well, that was terrifying. Thanks.


35 posted on 03/21/2020 6:01:11 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world but loses his soul?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

This is the same Africa that so many leftists Americans like to claim as their homeland. It never has been anything more than a s...hole and never will be.


36 posted on 03/21/2020 6:01:52 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Elsie
 
Manhattan Island area  22.82 mi²
 
Oklahoma   area of 69,899.00 mi²

37 posted on 03/21/2020 6:02:35 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: ryderann

That’s fine too. We will offer to sell them expertise and the use of our gear. We truly can’t afford to prop up any foreign government right now.


38 posted on 03/21/2020 6:07:07 AM PDT by cyclotic (A vote for Democrats is a vote for lower traffic volumes)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

If you choose to live like a bunch of Stone Age barbarians, you can expect conditions like what humanity experienced in the Stone Age.

Duh.


39 posted on 03/21/2020 6:10:12 AM PDT by IronJack
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pollster1

When I was 3 or 4 my older brothers would fry grasshoppers in my mom’s cast iron frying pan for the chickens (behind the barn). They fed them to me, and I would beg for them. Quite tasty I guess.


40 posted on 03/21/2020 6:11:34 AM PDT by TStro (Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-85 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson