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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Legitimately, this is how the start of the Solanum virus from the book (not the shitty film) World War Z written by Max Brooks starts and spreads.

Highly recommended audiobook because Mark Hamill does a voice role in it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

my hero! thank you for your thoughtful link inclusion. pray tell which should I dl for the audiobook? It's the same file content for both links?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They're probably the same based on file size

[–] Raphael 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Suspicious of you to mention that. We have countless floods around the world but you decided to bring up viruses specifically in a China thread.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Have you read the book?

[–] danhasnolife 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Since China (with the US) is one of the major offenders of fossil fuels, I am curious as to whether we see more dramatic climate change impacts in China specifically, or if that impact is going to be diffused across the world. China is a big country.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Since China is the primary driver of sustainable development globally, I'm excited to see what technology and mitigation strategies they come up with and make available to the world over in the coming decades. China is a big country with huge potential, and they are already making an outsized impact.

https://mronline.org/2023/04/11/how-china-can-prevent-climate-catastrophe-moving-humanity-toward-global-ecological-civilization/

[–] SheeEttin 5 points 1 year ago

Local impacts like smog, yes of course. Global impacts, not really, because they're global.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Surely all of these floods have nothing to do with climate change and we should just keep right on using fossil fuels.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

It's a good thing climate change isn't real, huh?

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