The fight to contain a new locust invasion that could push millions into hunger

On this farm in central Kenya, people bang cooking utensils as they try to ward off an infestation of desert locusts, one of many swarms eating their way through East Africa.

If not contained, agencies have warned that locust numbers will multiply by up to 400 times in June, and their rising numbers could turn the infestation into a plague by the end of the year. This breeding cycle, from egg to mature gregarious locust takes roughly three months and can bring a 20-fold increase in numbers. This can then increase to 400-fold after six months and 8,000 after nine months.

Desert locusts are the oldest migratory pest in the world. Yet extreme weather events linked to climate change helped create the unprecedented scourge in recent times, according to the United Nations. This year, swarms have continued to spread and reproduce through East Africa. They've been seen in Uganda, Tanzania and South Sudan -- one of Africa’s most food-insecure and fragile economies. The FAO worries that swarms could travel as far as West Africa in the summer.If the locust outbreak is uncontained, estimated damages and losses could reach $8.5 billion by the end of this year, said the World Bank. Ethiopia is expected to be the worst hit.

Genesis 2:15 ESV The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. We did ruin the garden of eden so...I guess we're just bad stewards.

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The conversation about this has been awesome! Happy to see the interest in the topic whether you're religious or not. I am and I pray for us all every day.

is the most ridiculous, fear baiting agency today!

No.

So was it man made climate change, that the people where writing about in the Bible? Or do we just the word Biblical out, for dramatic effect?

So how did the biblical pest biblically breed in biblical times? Or did climate change happen then too?

Well, the climate changes and there is nothing anyone can do about it.

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Bullshit

Actually locusts can feed a lot of people

We have never developed ANY vaccine for ANY Coronavirus... yet we should “cure” climate change Guess we should never go outside for the next century?

Pssst CNN..... It talks of Plagues of Locust in the Bible! The Egyptians battled them in writings over 5,000 years ago!

The times of the revelations may be near, with wars, natural disasters, famine, pestilence, and much more stated in the Bible. But we must remember that as a human race, we still have an obligation towards our earth to heal it and strengthen our atmosphere/stop global warming!

Just throw the whole year away and start over

No, it didn’t

Bible claims 😂

Cause by Australia fire

Sad, the only time some people refer to the Bible or any belief in God Almighty, is when something bad happens. They deny the goodness of God all the time and consider it luck. All of Creation is His to do with as He chooses, but troubles came to the world when Adam & Eve sinned.

Coming of Antichrist is nearing

Fake news. Locust swarms have been happening for millenia. Climate change has absolutely nothing to do with it.

Warfare tactics.

Fear porn

I think deforestation and significant decrease in bird population is responsible for locust attack. There natural predators have declined in number drastically.

No, those are republicans!

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