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‘It’s completely out of control’: Scientists warn bird flu could spark a human pandemic in 2026 | BBC Science Focus Magazine (www.sciencefocus.com)
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[–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Maybe we deserve it.

INB4 anyone says, "I didn't vote for this" or "I don't deserve it" - what are you doing to change things? Holding up a sign? Peacefully protesting? Not shopping at Amazon?

That doesn't move the needle.

Until the billionaires and corporations milking the country at our expense fear for their lives, nothing will change.

And, yes, I'm guilty too, because commenting on Lemmy does jack shit.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 10 months ago

    Maybe we deserve it.

    I don't think it matters if we "deserve it", that seems to imply some of karmic outcome. Will it happen if we continue living our lives as we do on the planet, likely yes.

    So it's not that we deserve it, no more then we deserve to be dead, it's that it's likely to happen and we know it.

    It's out reactions to all this I find confunding (enviormental destruction, climate change, mass extinctions etc) and this undermines any insistence we're a sophisticated and evolved species

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