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    9 months ago

    I remember, it’s been nearly a decade already, when the shocking realization hit me that climate change wasn’t just something that was going to happen, like 100 or even 20 years in the future, but it had already happened, and people simply were refusing to acknowledge it.

    since the turn of the millennium, deaths from climate change have already exceeded those from all World Health Organization global-health emergencies other than Covid-19 combined. “Vanishingly few of these deaths will have been recognized by the victims’ families, or acknowledged by national governments, as the consequence of climate change,”

    But there is currently no vaccine for climate change.:-(

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      9 months ago

      COVID-19 may still have been a result of climate change, and climate change increases the likelihood of new pandemics.

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        9 months ago

        I think that one was inevitable, due to humans encroaching upon the bats territory and how fast it mutates - people were warning about it being inevitable over a decade ago. But yeah, climate change could bring about the next one. (Link)