Right now the virus is outsmarting the humans
By Kay Ebeling
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Scientists knew a heating planet would produce new viruses / pandemics as far back as 1970s
Only the beginning As people realize how bad this is going to be, I bet we see
Why is no one connecting Covid-19 with melting glaciers and icecaps which are releasing new viruses????? Ironically, we are not hearing more about viruses in melting glaciers
In 1978 fresh out of college with a bachelor's degree, I got hired by NASA as a writer-editor in their newsroom in Houston. My senior year I lobbied myself into the job because I was a real space program enthusiast at the time, thought I'd even be a journalist in space if I continued on that career path. Then five years later I was back in L.A. working in the film industry.
However, I left Houston with knowledge and information that at the time I didn't even realize
was important, but today haunts me and enters my mind several times a day.
I learned in 1978 that the
planet was heating too fast, at an alarming rate, and the effects could be
devastating. I learned it while interviewing a geologist about his annual trips
to Antarctica to collect stray asteroid rocks that land there. After the interview as I was packing up to leave his office he threw out, "You know what's
really alarming is the planet is heating up and heating
too fast." I stopped and he continued. He said every time he goes to Antarctica "you can see it, it's obvious. The ice caps are melting." I said, isn't that just something that happens in cycles and he got excited. "Yes that's true but this is different. The amount of ice that is melting is alarmingly, not like anything that's happened before." I think I scampered away as I was still kind of young and in
way over my head on that job.
But I never forgot what he said about the planet warming too fast, I never forgot the passion in his face, he was really alarmed.
So after that, now and then there would be a news story or magazine article about global warming, and I'd read it, and since that first conversation in 1978, I've read a lot of articles. And EVERY ARTICLE I read about global warming and climate change predicted new viruses would accompany it. EVERY ONE.
EVERY ARTICLE I read about global warming and climate change predicted new viruses. EVERY ONE
I don't know why no one in today's news media is mentioning the connection between global warming and new viruses but … they
used to before the viruses hit.
Okay here is where a
real journalist goes into a research dive. I could track down those Scientific Americans
or other magazine articles from the 1980s-2000 or so that predicted viruses would result
from the ecological disaster humans are making of our planet. Global warming and methane emissions and car exhaust
and airplanes, it's all combining to make our own planet itself choke for air.
At age 72, I have come to attribute life qualities to Earth, to think of the planet as a living organism with an immune system. It produces fire and flood and it ejects micro organisms to protect itself, just like humans produce antibodies to fight disease. Earth is just trying to stay alive and right now she's becoming overrun by parasites on two legs who keep trying to kill her.
So she's produced an RNA
strand that humans call covid with an amazing ability to mutate so that no matter what the humans do, the RNA strand virus will keep on infecting.
I think the planet
itself produced the Covid virus in 2019 and is still producing more versions of that and other viruses, because she wants the
humans to STOP. Look around and see what you are doing to the planet and STOP. And if the
only way the planet can get the humans to stop is to force them to stay away from
each other or die, then Mother Earth will do what she has to do to protect her
own.
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