Posted on 04/08/2020 7:24:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
COVID-19 is not a climate-change pandemic - as far as we know, nothing about the emergence or spread of the coronavirus bears the recognizable imprint of global warming. But if the disease and our utter inability to respond to it terrifies you about our future staring down climate change, it should, not just as a “fire drill” for climate change generally but as a test run for all the diseases that will be unleashed in the decades ahead by warming. The virus is a terrifying harbinger of future pandemics that will be brought about if climate change continues to so deeply destabilize the natural world: scrambling ecosystems, collapsing habitats, rewiring wildlife, and rewriting the rules that have governed all life on this planet for all of human history.
Among the many unnerving lessons the two crises share is this one: Nature is mighty, and scary, and we have not defeated it but live within it, subject to its temperamental power, no matter where it is that you live or how protected you may normally feel.
“New universe” is not hyperbole. Scientists guess the planet could harbor more than a million yet-to-be-discovered viruses - many of them, like COVID-19, for now “quarantined” in particular susceptible species, but which could evolve or “jump” into humans, either as the result of changing climatic conditions or because the scrambling of native ecosystems and habitats brings the host species into contact with humans in a much more direct way that ever before.
That remains a mystery. But ignorance is no comfort. Presumably climate change will introduce us to some of them.
(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...
Oh, brother!
Guess we called this one right huh? Again, if it took as little as six or so weeks for things to ‘improve’ so dramatically, then the ‘healing’ powers of muvver erf are a lot better than the ecotossers thought or things weren’t as bad as they claim. Hey, ecoterrorists-——fah Q.
Well, it’s true.
This is the vision of the liberal/progressive future of the power they need to “combat” climate change.
A writer, so self-important that he needs TWO last names.
More Media Party alarmist narrative. I’m a bit surprised that they have not brought Orson Welles back to do something like his War of the Worlds radio show that scared so many simpletons in the New York/New Jersey area.
The Left is the likely “owner” of this virus..bought and paid for.
So, that means, as owners, they can make it into whatever they want...no doubt, they’ll turn it into some kind of climate change BS issue...as usual. Typical, brain-dead communists.
Another lib pile of crap!
Yep! Both use shi**y models!
I was wondering how long it would take Big Media to try to link the corona mess to their sacred cow Climate Change.
But now we get to raise the topic of statistical errors and incorrect models that damage society ... thanks to the corona FUBAR predictions
Wow, we might as well just off ourselves today and let the viruses take over the world. It is hopeless.
Congratulations! You win the “Steaming Pantload of the Day” award.
Look at the shiny object! Look at the shiny object!
The difference is the Chicom Cooties is a real disease that kills real people.
Fantasies about CO2 aren’t even a threat.
Doncha just love articles that bitch about something and offer no viable solutions to the problem?
The Silver lining to all this is that the American People are seeing first hand what the Democrats would do if they had the power.
Who would have thought that someone could be arrested for attending church or playing with their child in a park - only because someone in authority said they were not allowed.
“Global Warming” was suppose to be the bogey man that gave the Democrats power to control our life, but they will use what they have.
The problem for them is that the American people are seeing for themselves what it is like to live under a communist dictatorship. I don’t think they like it.
This crisis will be over soon, let us see if the brown shirts pack up and go home or if they will try to keep using the temporary power they have.
STFU with this BS! They can’t let people forget about the biggest hoax ever on the American people.
The Stalinists would love to use current emergency rules to deprive us of our God given and Constitutionally protected rights, to impose their agenda.
In the last few days I have seen articles from this rag, New York Mag, and find them disgusting.
Everything I see points to Americans embracing the fear, using it to virtue signal (look, I’m wearing a mask!!) and bring out their inner Stasi (hey jerk, where’s YOUR mask? People are DYING you know!). The over the top worship of medical personnel, the ‘stay safe!!’ signs in peoples windows and yards, all stoked by national and local media hand in hand with fascists like Benito Cuomo.
No sir, they’re not going to hand all that juicy power back, not a chance.
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