(End of the American Dream)—A supervolcano that covers 77 square miles is being shaken by one earthquake after another, but we are hearing very little about this in the United States. A full-blown eruption of the Campi Flegrei supervolcano in southern Italy could potentially cause a volcanic winter that would absolutely devastate global food production and result in a horrific worldwide famine. So it should deeply alarm all of us that the Campi Flegrei supervolcano was just hit by a “major” earthquake swarm that caused local residents to panic so much that many of them were literally running into the streets…
A 4.4 magnitude earthquake struck the volcanic area around Naples as part of a ‘major’ quake swarm on Tuesday, sparking fear but no immediate reports of damage.
The tremor hit the Campi Flegrei area in southern Italy at 12:07 pm, at a depth of three kilometres, according to Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology.
It was preceded by two quakes of 2.1 magnitude, and followed by one of 3.5 magnitude 15 minutes later.
The tremors were felt in Naples and neighbouring Pozzuoli, where panicked residents ran to the streets.
The reason why people run into the streets when there is an earthquake is so that they won’t be crushed to death by buildings falling down on top of them.
During the earthquake swarm, Pozzuoli mayor Gigi Manzoni encouraged everyone living in the area “to remain calm”…
‘A major seismic swarm is underway,’ wrote Pozzuoli’s mayor Gigi Manzoni on social media.
He said it had ‘inevitably frightened the population’ but urged everyone ‘to remain calm, to remain in open spaces – this is a time of great anxiety’ before adding that he had deployed local police to the streets.
That whole area of southern Italy is so beautiful, but I couldn’t imagine living there knowing that a cataclysmic disaster could literally occur at any moment.
I asked Google AI what would happen if Campi Flegrei erupted, and this is what I was told…
A Campi Flegrei eruption, especially a major one, could have devastating consequences, potentially leading to global impacts. A major eruption would likely cause widespread ash fall, major earthquakes and landslides in southern Italy, and significant air pollution and acid rain. A volcanic winter, global crop failure, and even mass extinctions are also possible.
Oh, is that all?
As I have documented repeatedly, we are in the midst of a historic global food crisis already.
A volcanic winter would definitely push us into an unprecedented worldwide famine and millions would starve. So I will be watching Campi Flegrei very closely.
Earlier this year, volcanologist Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo warned that a full-blown eruption of Campi Flegrei could potentially release ten times as much energy as the eruption that destroyed Pompeii in 79 AD…
The evacuation plan involves moving half a million people within 72 hours, which Mastrolorenzo considers a “very optimistic hypothesis.”
If an eruption were to occur, the disaster for the region would be enormous. The energy released during the eruption could be ten times greater than what destroyed Pompeii in 79 A.D. The volcano has been emitting more and more carbon dioxide for years, recently 5,500 tons per day. The emission of hydrogen sulfide, among others, in the Solfatara crater, has increased fivefold. “The supereruption is long overdue,” concluded Mastrolorenzo.
He is right.
The clock is ticking. One of these days, it will finally blow.
Of course so many volcanoes are erupting all over the world right now.
In Bolivia, a mighty volcano that has supposedly been “dormant for 250,000 years” is now roaring back to life…
The Uturuncu volcano in Bolivia’s Andes Mountains, dormant for 250,000 years, is exhibiting warning signs of a potential eruption that could threaten lives and cause destruction.
Uturuncu, the highest mountain in southwestern Bolivia, caused a region near its summit—about 150 kilometers (93 miles) wide—to rise and fall, creating a sombrero-like shape.
Over 1,700 recent earthquakes have prompted scientists to study Uturuncu.
I don’t believe that volcano has been dormant for 250,000 years.
But we do know that it has not been active in the modern history of Bolivia, and so the fact that it is being shaken by so many earthquakes is definitely alarming.
Meanwhile, it is being projected that a giant volcano off the coast of Oregon could erupt some time in 2025…
About 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, an underwater volcano appears to be rumbling to life.
Scientists who have been monitoring the vast submarine volcano for decades say a flurry of recent activity — including an uptick in earthquakes in the vicinity, and swelling of the structure itself — signals that it’s ready to erupt.
Current forecasts project that the volcano, known as Axial Seamount, could erupt anytime between now and the end of the year, according to Bill Chadwick, a volcanologist and research professor at Oregon State University.
Scientists are assuring us that the west coast will not be affected when this volcano erupts.
Hopefully they are right about that.
Speaking of the west coast, recently there have been reports of birds “exploding” in the northern California town of Richmond…
A disturbing avian mystery is unfolding in a Northern California town where residents have reported birds “exploding.”
Residents of a neighborhood in the Bay Area community of Richmond, northeast of San Francisco, claim they have found multiple dead birds in their yards on their street. Security cameras even recorded one fowl’s fatality, showing it falling to its death from a power line after a loud pop was captured in the footage.
The mystery deepened on Monday when investigators released the results of necropsies performed on two of the dead birds, suggesting foul play.
Authorities are investigating, but so far they cannot tell us why so many birds are dropping dead in this area.
Let’s hope that it isn’t something serious.
We live at a time when so many unexplained things are happening.
Unfortunately, I have a feeling that this is just the beginning.
I am entirely convinced that global events are going to become much stranger in the days ahead. That may sound like bad news to a lot of people, but to me this is such an exciting time to be alive.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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