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Imallin4Joe

(752 posts)
Sat Aug 22, 2020, 05:48 PM Aug 2020

Impending doom: The most dangerous aspect of global warming that few are talking about. [View all]

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?

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