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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

They're probably the same based on file size

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

Have you read the book?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 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] 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years 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] -3 points 2 years ago

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

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