“Ten plagues”: behind the pandemic of coronavirus 2020 promises the world, fires, flood, crop failure and a plague of locusts

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“Ten plagues”: behind the pandemic of coronavirus 2020 promises the world, fires, flood, crop failure and a plague of locusts

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Natural disasters threaten hunger poor countries and serious problems in Europe and the United States, warn meteorologists and international organizations

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Even if the country affected by flood, drought or hurricane, there is money for the disaster relief and recovery, buy and drive required for this is now more difficult than ever due to transport restrictions associated with the coronavirus. Frightened by the epidemic, the authorities imposed bans on the export of medicines and food

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Followed by coronavirus 2020 promises a warming planet fires, flood, crop failure, and the biblical plague of locusts. Natural disasters threaten hunger poor countries and serious problems in Europe and the United States, warn meteorologists and international organizations. This writes the “Russian service BBC”.

In light of the fact that all the resources of many countries thrown into the fight against the coronavirus, doctors and rescue workers can’t spare the manpower, and the budgets do not have extra money. Farmers, business and transport had gone into quarantine, and if at the time of the coronavirus pandemic will have devastating tornado or a hailstorm, the situation risks to get out of control. On the help of neighbors or international organizations to not count.

Even if the country affected by flood, drought or hurricane, there is money for the disaster relief and recovery, buy and drive required for this is now more difficult than ever due to transport restrictions associated with the coronavirus. Frightened by the epidemic, the authorities imposed bans on the export of medicines and food. The USA has cut funding to the world health organization, accusing its members in withholding information about the scale of the pandemic.

Meanwhile, the problem of global warming does not cease to be relevant. According to the world’s largest database on Earth’s climate, the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) in March 2020, the planet record-warmed even in spite of the global quarantine, which stood transport and industry. As explained by Professor Daniela Schmidt of Bristol University, the results of warming, like increased sea levels will be felt for centuries, and the pandemic only limited ability to mitigate the effects of climate change.

In June, the U.S. expects the semi-annual hurricane season and the warming of the oceans means that hurricanes will be more powerful than normal. Besides, overheated over seas pouring more than over cool land, which deprives the continent of rain and causes a drought. The increase in temperature in the Western Indian ocean is fraught with dry summers and forest fires in Australia, and the warming waters of the North Atlantic threatens to dry and burn the forests of the Amazon basin.

A kind of “rehearsal” the current situation is 2019, which in Europe was the hottest in the entire history of observations: temperature records has been observed in many countries. At the same time, November brought record rainfall and widespread flooding, and this year, this situation risks repeating itself.

In the whole of Europe into nearly two decades of this century had 11 of the 12 record-breaking hot years, causing the level of water reservoirs in the Ukraine and Romania had fallen to a critical level, and half agricultural land of France has dried up. In Germany, the fear of forest fires and droughts in 2018 and 2019, has deprived local farmers of the crop and income. Russia and Kazakhstan has restricted the export of grain, as they fear that an increased demand in rich countries will lead to export growth and deficit on the domestic market.

The drought has affected not only Europe: in the US local scale drought is a terrible second degree has already been observed in Texas, California and Oregon, and “very dry” (third degree) in a dozen States, mostly in the South, near the Mexican border, in the centre and North-West, from Alabama to Washington. While the yield last year of more than enough grain because of the pandemic hit the world food market: warehouses and ports is not enough healthy workers, the truck idle without drivers, and transportation declined sharply.

The harvest, meanwhile, is rotting in the fields because agriculture employs a lot of migrants: problems may arise in the productivity of coffee and strawberries. And the ready food, which is now in the world even in excess, in the current environment it is difficult to collect and deliver the supermarkets.

The danger of a food crisis, coupled with the pandemic coronavirus turns to rich States serious costs and becomes the reason to cut aid to poor countries. About the largest humanitarian crisis since the Second world war, warned long before the coronavirus, and from his account with a massive hunger this year, may face three decades in poor countries. According to the UN, in the world is chronically undernourished, almost 1 billion people – one in eight people on the planet. And because of the caused by a coronavirus of the crisis, their number will grow to 130 million in 2020.

In addition, the world is threatened by a plague of locusts that appeared in Yemen thanks to the warm and rainy winter. By the time of the pandemic locusts bred in 23 countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The world Bank has called the invasion the worst in a generation – and that’s before fully revealed his second, even bigger wave. Swarms of locusts Mature in Kenya, Ethiopia and Iran, and preparing for the invasion of Africa, where just germinate the crops.