I know it’s cool to circlejerk about doom and gloom, but in general things are better than they’ve ever been. Life expectancy continues to increase, people are less oppressed, technology progresses, there’s less war, the only problem is that in an interconnected world you can hear about all the bad stuff you were previously unaware of if that’s what you choose to hear!
Diseases that may lie in permafrost give reason to worry. These articles are entirely speculative and openly alarmist in nature, I wouldn’t trust them to sway your opinion if I were you.
There’s never been a dormant disease that’s been found and revived from permafrost that we have any reason to believe could infect human, let alone any explanation of how such a disease could make it into the human population just through the thawing of permafrost alone. It’s not just that I don’t think we have reason to worry, I actually think we have plenty of reason not to worry.
I know it’s cool to circlejerk about doom and gloom, but in general things are better than they’ve ever been. Life expectancy continues to increase, people are less oppressed, technology progresses, there’s less war, the only problem is that in an interconnected world you can hear about all the bad stuff you were previously unaware of if that’s what you choose to hear!
the climate would like a word
Even for the climate, we’re finally taking action and the action is speeding up every year.
We may be too little too late, but we’re moving and we’re speeding up
I prefer climate issues over tuberculosis and polio.
Climate change will likely bring a host of new diseases that have been frozen in permafrost for thousands of years.
I’m not trying to be doom and gloom, but unaddressed climate change could bring some serious consequences.
Do you have a source for this?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-earth-warms-the-diseases-that-may-lie-within-permafrost-become-a-bigger-worry/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/climate-change-will-result-in-new-viruses-and-risk-of-new-diseases-says-study
Diseases that may lie in permafrost give reason to worry. These articles are entirely speculative and openly alarmist in nature, I wouldn’t trust them to sway your opinion if I were you.
There’s never been a dormant disease that’s been found and revived from permafrost that we have any reason to believe could infect human, let alone any explanation of how such a disease could make it into the human population just through the thawing of permafrost alone. It’s not just that I don’t think we have reason to worry, I actually think we have plenty of reason not to worry.
True, it’s fucked. But we’re doing more to fix it than we were ten years ago, and there are far less people pretending there’s no problem.