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Here's how climate change could cause insects to destroy our crops. We might have underestimated the loss of crops to insects, as the climate warms.

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Recent models tell us that, as our climate warms up, herbivores and pests will cause increased damage to agricultural crops. One study predicted that crop yield lost to insects increases 10 to 25% for every 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) increase.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/02/insects-global-warming-damage-crops-rising-temperatures/
https://www.france24.com/en/20200124-billions-of-locusts-swarm-through-east-africa-after-year-of-extreme-weather
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7943293/Plague-billions-locusts-ravaging-farmland-East-Africa-grow-500-times-BIGGER.htmlv
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/animals/see-swarms-of-millions-of-locusts-strike-east-africa/vi-BBZis1W
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    Climate is changing in phases. The recorded climate changes on our planet show the cyclical nature of the "beast". We know that it dried seas and turned them to deserts.

    The phase that we are living in or through can have dramatic effects as you pointing out. It can have strong agricultural disruptions of epic proportions.

    We may need to have the Biblical wisdom of Josephs's prophecy to Pharaoh to prepare during the years of plenty for the years of disruptions. 

    We do so in someways for short term disruptions controlled by natural disasters. Areas devastated by fouds, fires, tornadoes, and storms, etc, etc.

    The readiness has to be on a personal level as on municipal, state and country/national and global levels.  Better safe than sorry.

    But as always there will be some who politicize and try to profit on these issues be it politically or financially or both. Fear is a strong motivating power.


    We as a planet and living beings on it been through a lot.  And there are a lot of challenges without the self-inflicting ones that wars and conflicts bring.  

    I pray for peace and wisdom.

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    A very good answer! I would agree with you but the final remedy to this global disaster is up only to us and not to the "haven" : We are the only responsible of this tragedy and WE must solve it by ourselves!

    An old Italian proverb reads: " Chi è causa del suo mal pianga se stesso" ! And the equivalent one in English is:" as you make your bad so you must lie in it" !


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    Luciano Bacco:
    A very good answer! I would agree with you but the final remedy to this global disaster is up only to us and not to the "haven" : We are the only responsible of this tragedy and WE must solve it by ourselves!

    An old Italian proverb reads: " Chi è causa del suo mal pianga se stesso" ! And the equivalent one in English is:" as you make your bed so you must lie in it" !

    Please read ' bed' in lieu of 'bad' in my previous post: spelling error. Sorry-


     




     

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