Africa At Apocalypse

Part of the Apocalypse may be tied to geologic shifts upsetting agricultural productivity in well settled areas:

Harvest should be the time for celebrations, weddings and full bellies in southern Malawi. But Christopher Witimani, Lilian Matafle and their seven children and four grandchildren had nothing to celebrate last week as they picked their meagre maize crop.

Last year’s drought, followed by erratic rains, hit the village of Nkhotakota hard. But this year the rains never came and, for a second year running, the family grain store is empty. If they manage their savings carefully and eat just one small meal a day, they may just have enough food for two more months.

By August, said Irish charity Concern Worldwide, they and tens of thousands of other small farmers in southern Malawi will have completely run out of food, with no prospect of another harvest for at least seven months. With nothing to sell and no chance of earning money, Witimani, Matafle and family will starve.

I’ve read that one reason the slave traders in Africa were black and not white was that whites would routinely be dead within six months from diseases in Africa at that time. They were just so immunologically naïve to African microorganisms that they would drop dead when confronted with the local diseases.

The point being, Africa has a lot of bad pathogens floating around. Now they will begin a period where all the humans in Africa will be immunologically compromised by shortage and stress, giving those bad pathogens the ability to get into humans and begin adapting to infect and spread among them. Add in the deteriorating world economic situation reducing public health expenditures when the next pandemic begins in Africa, and a pandemic Apocalypse may sweep across the globe all at once.

That will not bode well for liberals, or their ideology.