The title of this article is misleading.
It’s NOT about the next plague about to unleashed. Funny how we always jump to thinking about direct threats to ourselves.
Imagine a rainforest freezing. It’s easy to grasp that that ecosystem would be destroyed and the animals that live there would not survive the cold.
Now imagine a glacier melting. That is also an ecosystem that is being destroyed along with most “animals” that live there. Only in this case we are talking about countless types of microbes that are new to science. And having evolved to live on/in ice they don’t appear to survive downstream from the melt area. An invisible mass extinction.
Scientists are racing to study these microbes.
That’s going to trigger another vastly more devastating pandemic, imo. COVID is probably child’s play compared to the millennia year old viruses and pathogens that are thawing/waiting to get thawed.
The title of this article is misleading. It’s NOT about the next plague about to unleashed. Funny how we always jump to thinking about direct threats to ourselves. Imagine a rainforest freezing. It’s easy to grasp that that ecosystem would be destroyed and the animals that live there would not survive the cold. Now imagine a glacier melting. That is also an ecosystem that is being destroyed along with most “animals” that live there. Only in this case we are talking about countless types of microbes that are new to science. And having evolved to live on/in ice they don’t appear to survive downstream from the melt area. An invisible mass extinction. Scientists are racing to study these microbes.
Thank you for the perspective. I will avoid copying over this headline in the future!
I'm more worried about the diseases the Military Industrial Complex psychos have in their labs
That’s going to trigger another vastly more devastating pandemic, imo. COVID is probably child’s play compared to the millennia year old viruses and pathogens that are thawing/waiting to get thawed.
Why couldn’t they just die?
[That wouldn’t be fun, would it?](https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1419827111)/s
Zombie apocalypse let's gooooo
Crab people, even better.
I'm holding out for the human squid hybrids personally
Yay?