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Climate change will bring death for unexpected reasons | Heat death and cataclysmic storms are only the start of our worries
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this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2024
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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.
But there is currently no vaccine for climate change.:-(
It has happened, and is happening. The changes aren't over. The changes will continue happening at an accelerated pace.
And as this article suggests, also in unexpected ways.
We are not all going to make it:-|.
COVID-19 may still have been a result of climate change, and climate change increases the likelihood of new pandemics.
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)