IN the NEWS - Those "Pinch Points"

 At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place. Job 37:1

 Q: IF this was to happen---how MIGHT these kind of events help usher in the mark of the beast? One can see in a time of fear (with COVID) how people are willing to sacrifice some of their Freedom. ...what will they do IF the below article was to happen and Christians cry out to turn back to God while non-Christians cry out to appease mother earth?...common ground could be found in Ladauto Si'....JUST ONE OF MANY ASPECTS of POSSIBILITIES of global calamities.

"Currently, much of the thinking around risks posed by volcanoes follows a simple equation: the bigger the likely eruption, the worse it will be for society and human welfare.

However, a team of experts now argues that 

---too much focus is on the risks of massive yet rare volcanic explosions, 

---while far too little attention is paid to the potential domino effects of moderate eruptions in key parts of the planet.

Researchers led by the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the

Study of Existential Risk (CSER) have identified seven “pinch points” where clusters of relatively small but active volcanoes sit alongside vital infrastructure that, if paralyzed, could have catastrophic global consequences.  

These regions include volcano groups in Taiwan, North Africa, the North Atlantic, and the northwestern United States. The report is published today (August 6, 2021) in the journal Nature Communications.   

Mani and colleagues say that smaller eruptions ranking up to 6 on the “volcanic explosivity index”– rather than the 7s and 8s that tend to occupy catastrophist thinking – could easily produce ash clouds, mudflows, and landslides that scupper undersea cables, leading to financial market shutdowns, or devastate crop yields, causing food shortages that lead to political turmoil.

As an example from recent history, the team point to events of 2010 in Iceland, where a magnitude 4 eruption from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, close to the major “pinch point” of mainland Europe, saw plumes of ash carried on northwesterly winds close European airspace at a cost of US$5 billion to the global economy." SciTechDaily