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The UN Is Now Admitting That This Coronavirus Pandemic Could Spark Famines Of \u201cBiblical Proportions\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

What the head of the UN\u2019s World Food Program just said should be making front page headlines all over the globe.  Because if what he is claiming is true, we are about to see global food shortages on a scale that is absolutely unprecedented in modern history.  Even before COVID-19 arrived, armies of locusts the size of major cities<\/a> were voraciously eating crops all across Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia, and UN officials were loudly warning about what that would mean for global food production.  And now the coronavirus shutdowns that have been implemented all over the planet have brought global trade to a standstill, they are making it more difficult to maintain normal food production operations, and they have forced countless workers to stay home and not earn a living.  All of this adds up to a recipe for a complete and utter nightmare in the months ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Beasley is the head of the UN\u2019s World Food Program, and on Tuesday he warned that we could actually see famines of \u201cbiblical proportions\u201d by the end of this calendar year.  The following comes from ABC News<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The coronavirus pandemic could soon double hunger, causing famines of \u201cbiblical proportions\u201d around the world by the end of the year, the head of the World Food Programme, David Beasley, told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday.<\/p>

Beasley warned that analysis from the World Food Programme, the U.N.\u2019s food-assistance branch, shows that because of the coronavirus, \u201can additional 130 million people could be pushed to the brink of starvation by the end of 2020. That\u2019s a total of 265 million people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

He described what we are facing as\u00a0\u201ca hunger pandemic\u201d<\/a>, and he insisted that urgent action must be taken in order to avoid a nightmare scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The UN Is Now Admitting That This Coronavirus Pandemic Could Spark Famines Of \u201cBiblical Proportions\u201d What the head of the UN\u2019s World Food Program just said should be making front page headlines all over the globe.  Because if what he is claiming is true, we are about to see global food shortages on a scale […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[28817,29136,29520,28947,29011,29171,3262,29138,23103,395,7351,2660,14144,29140,4901,25804,12750,607,1138,3783,2731,29521,29522,29523,5221,11958,29524,29141,856,10233],"class_list":["post-52709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus-in-the-united-states","tag-coronavirus-lockdowns","tag-coronavirus-pandemic","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-pandemic","tag-disease","tag-drug","tag-drugs","tag-health","tag-job-losses","tag-layoffs","tag-medical","tag-medical-treatment","tag-michael-snyder","tag-outbreak","tag-pain","tag-pandemic","tag-stock-market","tag-stock-market-collapse","tag-stock-market-crash","tag-stock-market-crash-2020","tag-stock-market-melt-up","tag-stock-market-meltdown","tag-stock-prices","tag-unemployment-benefits","tag-unemployment-rising","tag-very-painful","tag-virus","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52710,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52709\/revisions\/52710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}