With food prices climbing, the U.N. is warning of crippling global shortages
"Fears of a global food crisis are growing due to the shock of the war in Ukraine, climate change and rising inflation."
"The U.N. estimates that in the past year, global food prices have risen by almost one third, fertilizer by more than half and oil prices by almost two thirds.'
"According to U.N. figures, the number of severely food-insecure people has doubled in the past two years, from 135 million pre-pandemic to 276 million today. Now, more than half a million people are experiencing famine conditions, according to the U.N., an increase of more than 500% since 2016.'
"In India, a devastating heatwave has upset the nation's wheat harvest, driving up prices around the world for the staple commodity. Earlier this month, as temperatures in the capital of Delhi hovered near 120 degrees Fahrenheit, the government announced a ban on wheat exports. The announcement helped push wheat prices to record levels.
(Six weeks before the ban on exports they said they could make up the shortage in wheat from the Ukraine, or a lot of it anyway, then the heatwave hit. How many idiosyncrasies (peculiarities, oddities) do you need to have to see who is really in charge here?
Lets review:
Taiwan drought = semiconductor shortage
Container ship stuck in Suez = Supply line crisis
Texas ice storm? = Petrol supply line disruption, refinery capacity lost.
India says it will replace Ukraine wheat? = Heat wave dries up crop.
Do you ever get the feeling its not just a bunch of strange occurrences?
Could it be any more obvious?
Revelation 6:5–6
When He broke the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, "Come." I looked, and behold, a black horse; and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; but do not damage the oil and the wine.")
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