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This is a test run for when global warming really starts to hit us. (Original Post) Eko May 2020 OP
It is entirely likely that new pandemics lapfog_1 May 2020 #1
Its a mere shadow of the issues coming... Moostache May 2020 #2
I find that very calming tonight. stillcool May 2020 #3
How so? Suffering of others is no worries? mahina May 2020 #4
not the suffering. More the reality of life. stillcool May 2020 #6
I'm just not sure I understand. You feel calm because the suffering will be massive, but not yours? mahina May 2020 #7
probably has something to do with.. stillcool May 2020 #9
I read you. Just trying to understand mahina May 2020 #10
The world will probably be a better place without humans. roamer65 May 2020 #8
Complete cilla4progress May 2020 #5

lapfog_1

(29,199 posts)
1. It is entirely likely that new pandemics
Thu May 28, 2020, 09:10 PM
May 2020

will occur more frequently in a warming world.

Also, world human population is a factor in the spread of these viruses into the human population which are "novel" (new to humans).

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
2. Its a mere shadow of the issues coming...
Thu May 28, 2020, 09:10 PM
May 2020

Climate refugees are going to be slaughtered by the BILLIONS.
Coastal cities will become unlivable - so too will places like Phoenix or Las Vegas.

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
6. not the suffering. More the reality of life.
Thu May 28, 2020, 09:40 PM
May 2020

Bad things happen, and life goes on, until it doesn't. The end.

mahina

(17,651 posts)
7. I'm just not sure I understand. You feel calm because the suffering will be massive, but not yours?
Thu May 28, 2020, 10:10 PM
May 2020

Am I getting this right?

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
9. probably has something to do with..
Fri May 29, 2020, 11:54 AM
May 2020

the state of my mind. I have always been more afraid of living than of dying. The end, no matter how I get there, has always been a calming thought. Maybe it has something to do with my mother dying when I was 6 mos. old, and how I would finally meet her when I too died. We humans all have our own story. We all go through this life alone. We're born alone, we die alone, and most of our life we live alone with our own thoughts in our own head. I see millions of people dying, as millions of persons dying. The collective amount is impossible for me to calculate, no matter the weapon used. You may think what you wish of me. It doesn't matter.

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
8. The world will probably be a better place without humans.
Thu May 28, 2020, 10:13 PM
May 2020

If aliens landed right now and I talked to them I would tell them what I said above.

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