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Coronavirus is an environmental wake-up call
The Week via Yahoo! News ^ | March 5, 2020 | by Madhvi Ramani

Posted on 03/05/2020 10:11:35 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

In the 1970s, chemist James Lovelock and microbiologist Lynn Margulis developed the Gaia hypothesis; the theory that all organic and inorganic components on the planet are part of one self-regulating system, working to maintain and perpetuate life on earth.

At the moment, the biggest threats to the delicate balance that makes this planet habitable are human-caused climate change and the destruction of biodiversity. Scientists agree that if individuals, businesses, and governments don't take significant action within the next decade to curb emissions, the damage will be catastrophic. Already, the effects to the natural world are massive and deadly, including infectious disease transmission patterns. But where scientists and popular movements have thus far failed to convince the world to act, it seems that Mother Earth may have succeeded, with the never-before-seen COVID-19 virus.

The current epidemic shows us that we are completely unprepared to deal with future outbreaks of diseases that will occur as a result of climate change. Not only will climate change increase the number of diseases passed from animals to humans due to changing boundaries of habitats and decreased biodiversity, but the melting ice and permafrost are releasing long dormant bacteria and viruses, like anthrax.

The novel coronavirus has sent alarm bells ringing throughout the world. It's time for us to wake up, listen to the primordial Earth goddess Gaia, and act.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fakenews; globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 03/05/2020 10:11:35 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
the theory that all organic and inorganic components on the planet are part of one self-regulating system, working to maintain and perpetuate life on earth.

Pretty much true until human beings take them into a lab and start screwing with their DNA.


2 posted on 03/05/2020 10:13:00 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So Corona was caused by climate change? Not by malnourished Chinese eating rotten snakes and bats?


3 posted on 03/05/2020 10:13:36 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yahoo “News”.


4 posted on 03/05/2020 10:18:57 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

His name is Madhvi Ramani but all his friends just call him Loopy. LOL.


5 posted on 03/05/2020 10:20:06 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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Climate change causes dandruff.


6 posted on 03/05/2020 10:21:52 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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It would be interesting, and quite revealing to know what these alarmists views are about “gender reassignment” procedures. IT’S NOT NICE TO FOOL WITH MOTHER NATURE they tell us


7 posted on 03/05/2020 10:22:02 AM PST by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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Gender confusion is caused by man made liberalism.


8 posted on 03/05/2020 10:24:28 AM PST by spudville
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Who didn’t see this coming? What is going to be funny is when this hysteria crashes the world economy, and a politician starts talking about taxes and climate change. He/she may get physically attacked.

This environmentalism is a luxury of the rich. When this panic has put the world into a full on depression, people are going to be worried about their next meal, or burning old furniture to stay warm.


9 posted on 03/05/2020 10:25:28 AM PST by Codeflier (FearRepublic.com - keeping the media panic narrative going 24/7 to finally bring down Trump.)
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So Corona virus is caused by low taxes


10 posted on 03/05/2020 10:25:38 AM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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Here we go.....


11 posted on 03/05/2020 10:26:49 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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I blame the dark side of The Force.


12 posted on 03/05/2020 10:27:10 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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More likely it is weaponized ffrom China’s biowarfare lab and originally stolen from a Western biowarfare lab.


13 posted on 03/05/2020 10:28:25 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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“listen to the primordial Earth goddess Gaia, and act.”

Good Gaia almighty.. just don’t sit there.. do something!


14 posted on 03/05/2020 10:29:55 AM PST by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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Disgusting, I saw that they boil and salughter animals alive and slaughter dogs, cats, wolf puppies.....sicko’s....I’d say this is a punishment from St. Francis....


15 posted on 03/05/2020 10:33:45 AM PST by 1217Chic
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Disgusting, I saw that they boil and salughter animals alive.... dogs, cats, wolf puppies.....sicko’s....I’d say this is a punishment from St. Francis....


16 posted on 03/05/2020 10:34:15 AM PST by 1217Chic
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Some big shot professor blamed it on global warming this morning.


17 posted on 03/05/2020 11:00:16 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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Please correct me if I am wrong, but it is my understanding that the Corona virus does not do well or last long outside of a host, at higher ambient temperatures.

If this is correct then...hooray for global warming!!!


18 posted on 03/05/2020 11:01:08 AM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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Oh no, there goes Tokyo
Go go Godzilla, yeah
History shows again and again
How nature points out the folly of men
Godzilla

Coronavirus is the new Godzilla to these Gaia worshipers.


19 posted on 03/05/2020 11:15:09 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Funny, I see it more as a secure boarders wake up call.


20 posted on 03/05/2020 11:15:39 AM PST by taxcontrol
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