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We're Going to Have Another Pandemic. You Need Eye Protection.

For some of us, it's not that simple.

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Oct 13, 2024
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We’re going to have another pandemic, and soon.

Scientists have done the math. They’ve made the models. The days when we only had a pandemic once every century?

They’re over.

We’ve entered the age of consequences.

Climate models already tell us we can expect mega storms like Helene along with mega floods and mega droughts, mega fires, and mega heat domes about once every decade (or sooner) as we tumble into a world 1.5-2C degrees above the pre-industrial temperature average. The same goes for diseases. We can now expect a pandemic on the same time scale. And honestly, the facts on the ground tell us that even these grim scenarios offer the most conservative warnings.

You know it’s bad when the climate deniers have started blaming secret weather machines for what’s happening. So, more pandemics are just another consequence of our collective failures to take action.

Maybe you’ve seen the latest news destroying the myth that bird flu was mild in cows. That …

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