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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsImpending doom: The most dangerous aspect of global warming that few are talking about.
Global warming is real.
Warmth hastens microbial evolution similar to a body builder injecting steroids.
Warmth is like a growth hormone for microbial life.
It's a free energy source for microbes, but it comes at 1 cost.
To survive, microbes must adapt to a warmer climate.
This extreme adaptation requires microbial life to evolve.
This evolution can often result in dangerous new disease causing microbes. Bacteria, viruses etc..
Just in the past 50 years we've seen..
Pandemic explosions..
HIV
SARS
H1N1 Swine Flu
Ebola
Zika
Mers(Middle East Respiratory Syndrome)
Bird Flu
Mad Cow
Chronic wasting syndrome
COVID-19
Many of these diseases seemed to come out of nowhere. Like they just burst on to the scene and began their deadly onslaughts.
Again
Warmth hastens the evolution of microbial life with often devastating results.
New pandemics are the new normal.
New pandemics will plague us for the foreseeable future with no end in sight.
Science will be our only defense.
Science NOT bombs must become the focal point of national defense.
Democrats, START talking about the dangers of microbial evolution caused by increasing global temperatures.
This problem will not go away by ignoring it.
How many more pandemics will it take to open our eyes?
Karadeniz
(22,156 posts)volstork
(5,393 posts)...or to close them permanently?
I wish this were a bad dream that I could just wake up from.
Sadly, its becoming reality.
Hekate
(89,976 posts)...plugging away. But Democrats do not hold the Senate or the White House and are dealing with a criminal enterprise.
Never forget that at the moment when Barack Obama was being sworn in as president for the first time, there were several Republican Senators meeting privately who swore to make him a one-term president by blocking every single initiative he put forward, regardless of its merit. Two of them were Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham.
Never forget who is the enemy here.
DBoon
(22,256 posts)and he was cheated out of a presidency he deserved
Hekate
(89,976 posts)...in the party than we ever could have believed, including Beer-loving Kavanaugh.
Never forget who the real enemy is.
Initech
(99,881 posts)Because if they don't learn from this one, will they ever? Probably not. This plague is entirely their fault. And the next one will most likely be theirs too.
Imallin4Joe
(752 posts)The entire GOP is to blame for Trump's pandemic.
Maybe expect Romney. He appears to be almost the lone voice of reason from that side.
Trump and the GOP's ignorance is shameful and disgusting.
CousinIT
(9,087 posts)due to climate change. https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/how-climate-change-increases-our-risk-for-pandemics
Imallin4Joe
(752 posts)I've read it before but nice to read again. Great article for those who haven't seen it.
lostnfound
(16,124 posts)They cant multiply without a host, and what matters for that is population density, not heat.
On edit: Habitat loss caused by climate change can cause wild animals to come nearer to human populations, and if they animals harbor viruses, then that would be added risk.
AllyCat
(15,987 posts)Climate change is INDEED a major problem. Just a bit different than the OP asserts.
pwb
(11,189 posts)Resist the corporate back to normal push. They caused all this.
Thus, corp America is shooting itself in the foot by worsening this pandemic.