Nostradamus C10 Q06: The worst fire and flood events of all time lies ahead of the 21stC
Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015, Apr 2023

The following verse is one of two containing a highly defining reference point, that of Robert Thomas Malthus the eighteenth to nineteenth century finance expert who foresaw the inevitable demise of the growth model on a finite planet.

 The validity of that reference is based on the anagrams for Malthusian's debtors (mans ſi hault desbor) in the first line.

Malthusians only occurs in this verse while debtors appears in two others. The two terms have great correlation since Malthusians alludes to followers of Malthus' thesis on population risks,  and writings on this topic arose out of his pessimism of the poor ever escaping their state of poverty because of the imbalance between debtors and creditors.

[Robert Thomas] Malthus became widely known for his theories about change in population. His An Essay on the Principle of Population [1798CE] observed that sooner or later population will be checked by famine and disease, leading to what is known as a Malthusian catastrophe. He wrote in opposition to the popular view in 18th-century Europe that saw society as improving and in principle as perfectible. He thought that the dangers of population growth precluded progress towards a utopian society: "The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man". Wikipedia extract

The name and terminology are references that only a prophet or chance could have incorporated into any work before the population theories of Malthus were first published, yet there are powerful indicators that Nostradamus or a co-author was responsible for placing this connection to Malthus into his own work.

A basis for the above conclusion that Nostradamus' was using knowledge of the future comes from the text in this verse.

The first two lines refer to a great flood which is prominent throughout his prophecies and accompanying prefaces. This flood through the numerous references can be deduced to be in the future.

In the last two lines of text there is the reference to an enigmatic form of fire and this is enlightened only by the content of modern physics within the anagrams of the second line.

The anagrams that deliver both a modern setting and an explanation of the exinguished mysterious form of fire are radio-nuclear (ra Deucalion r) and denuclearisation ( Deucalion renaiſt). These two terms are also only found in this verse.

From this and other verses one can suggest that in 2098CE the Malthusian expectations will be fully appreciated.

The scenario this verse depicts is consistent with the tale of devastation at the end of this century as can be seen in my papers on Floods , 21st Century war and Fire in the Sky.