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Two new generations of locusts are set to descend on East Africa again—400 times stronger
Posted on 4/11/20 at 1:32 am
Posted on 4/11/20 at 1:32 am
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The locust WhatsApp hotline has been pinging nonstop as farmers and herders across large swathes of rural Kenya send in video clips of massive swarms flying overhead, blocking the light of the sun like a Biblical plague.
This infestation of desert locusts first arrived in East Africa last June, feeding on hundreds of thousands of hectares of crops and pastureland and chomping a path of destruction through at least eight countries (Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Sudan). Scientists say these devastating insects never left East Africa: in fact, favorable wet conditions due to above average rainfall this season means they are likely to achieve two generations of new breeding by June this year, increasing their population size up to 400 times.
East Africa already has 20 million severely food insecure people, who barely eat enough to fill their stomachs each day, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO), the body responsible for overseeing the locust response. This new wave of locusts poses a serious threat to food security in a region recently devastated by conflict and climate change shocks, including extreme droughts and floods, and now anticipating a sharp rise in novel coronavirus (Covid-19) cases.
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Posted on 4/11/20 at 1:34 am to Bench McElroy
This is somehow GMOs fault
Posted on 4/11/20 at 1:36 am to Bench McElroy
Plagues... swarms of locusts...
Pretty soon we’ll hit the flooding and famine stage.
Better start repenting baws
Pretty soon we’ll hit the flooding and famine stage.
Better start repenting baws
Posted on 4/11/20 at 1:40 am to Bench McElroy
Wake me up when the frogs invade
Posted on 4/11/20 at 1:40 am to TulaneFan
Locust must have been a pretty big pain in the arse if they made the Bible.
Posted on 4/11/20 at 1:50 am to Bench McElroy
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food insecure people
Made up bullshite to pander to stupid people.
Posted on 4/11/20 at 5:22 am to Duane Dibbley
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Made up bullshite
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food insecure people
The bar for this may have been lowered in the US, but pretty sure parts of Africa has legit starvation issues...
Posted on 4/11/20 at 5:26 am to redbaron
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The bar for this may have been lowered in the US, but pretty sure parts of Africa has legit starvation issues...
And world's fastest growing population, us feeding and providing advanced medical care to them has caused infinite more death and suffering than would otherwise have been, quit meddling in this shite. We are putting them way over their carry capacity.
This post was edited on 4/11/20 at 5:43 am
Posted on 4/11/20 at 6:46 am to Bench McElroy
No one should live there
Posted on 4/11/20 at 6:52 am to Bench McElroy
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food insecure people
So we're now putting a PC spin on starvation?
Posted on 4/11/20 at 7:24 am to LSU-MNCBABY
So you’re going to let them come here?
Posted on 4/11/20 at 7:26 am to Weekend Warrior79
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So we're now putting a PC spin on starvation?
Reality in any form is rejected, It's the Party Line
This post was edited on 4/11/20 at 7:27 am
Posted on 4/11/20 at 7:34 am to Bench McElroy
I know this is a dumb question but can’t you take them out with things like shotguns, helicopters, windmills, birds... dare I say flamethrowers?
Posted on 4/11/20 at 7:35 am to TulaneFan
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Plagues... swarms of locusts...
Pretty soon we’ll hit the flooding and famine stage.
Better start repenting baws
don't forget volcanoes and earthquakes
Posted on 4/11/20 at 7:40 am to ForeverEllisHugh
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know this is a dumb question but can’t you take them out with things like shotguns, helicopters, windmills, birds... dare I say flamethrowers?
First thing I thought too...planes with insecticide
Posted on 4/11/20 at 8:21 am to Bench McElroy
Those starving people better start eating those protein rich locust
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