When We Lose Antibiotics, Here’s Everything Else We’ll Lose Too

[Aristus]

25. That's very kind, thank you.

I am optimistic about our ability to solve problems when we have the will and the resources.

But I'm also confident about the ways in which certain seemingly intractable problems can solve themselves.

For example, a few years ago, I read an article which detailed how former member of the Mafia who were in the witness protection program were coming out of hiding, and suffering no deadly consequences. The Mob, which once seemed so powerful and pervasive, was shrinking, and no longer had the power or the resources to chase down snitches.

Similarly, organized white supremacy is dying out. No matter how loud and ubiquitous they seem now. More and more kids are growing up in the Facebook generation, and seeing the similarities between themselves and other kids their age of different ethnicities.

And more to the point of the OP, antibiotic medications that have fallen out of use due to resistance will make a comeback someday as the resistant strains die out, and new generations of susceptible organisms develop.