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Q&A: Julian Cribb
Globe and Mail
Floods in Pakistan, droughts in Russia, rising grain prices. According to award-winning Australian science writer Julian Cribb, these are warning signs of an impending disaster that will dwarf the financial crisis.
In his new book The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do To Avoid It, he warns that looming scarcities of water, land, nutrients, oil and fish will leave us unable to feed ourselves within 50 years.
In this wide-ranging conversation, Mr. Cribb addresses the implications of the Western diet, the threat to cities and what impact famine could have on immigration.
Q: You must be a charming dinner companion.
A: I am a bit depressing. It’s one of those issues people don’t like to talk about much. But I’m a science journalist, so I’ve got a lot of other things to talk about besides food.
Q: You outline a pretty scary scenario, but the idea of a looming global famine doesn’t really seem to be on anyone’s radar. Why is that?
First I shall speak of the fetters of darkness
which bind ye in chains to the sphere of the Earth.
Darkness and light are both of one nature,
different only in seeming,
for each arose from the source of all.
Darkness is disorder.
Light is Order.
Darkness transmuted is light of the Light.
This, my children, your purpose in being;
transmutation of darkness to light.
John 5:28
“Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice.”
5+28= 33
…….and so it begins
“And at that time there will be no hunger or war, no jealousy or rivalry. For the good will be plentiful, and all delicacies available as dust.
The entire occupation of the world will be only to know God… the people Israel will be of great wisdom; they will perceive the esoteric truths and comprehend their Creator’s wisdom as is the capacity of man. As it is written (Isaiah 11:9): “For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of God, as the waters cover the sea.”
Advent of the Messianic Era…..
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