Aidan Hartley Aidan Hartley

Another plague is enveloping the world – locusts

Soon we will see individual swarms the size of London

A swarm of locusts in Isiolo County, eastern Kenya (Getty Images) 
issue 16 May 2020

As if 2020 hasn’t already scared the hell out of us all, a plague of locusts is upon us. When I first witnessed a swarm swirling across my farm in Kenya, it was hard to see them in the nightmarish way they’re depicted in Exodus or the Book of Revelation.

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