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2 weeks agoDying ancient river sparks fears biblical prophecy may come true
The Euphrates drying is linked to end-times prophecy, and climate-driven water loss could make the biblical imagery more literal by 2040.
For a full two years now, the billionaire has been on the circuit, spreading his biblically inflected ideas about doomsday through a set of variably and sometimes visibly perplexed interviewers. He has chatted onstage with the economist podcaster Tyler Cowen about the katechon (the scriptural term for "that which withholds" the end times); traded some very awkward on-camera silences with the New York Times columnist Ross Douthat;