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Originally Posted by RedDevil
The point I wanted to make is not so much about tropical diseases being on the rise - obviously the medical world is evolving, and so is pest control.
The point is that hot humid conditions are what make these pests possible.
Heat does not kill people directly, but it provides the circumstances for malaria to kill over a million people each year. And that's just one disease.
Polar bears kill too, but as a cause of human mortality they are no match for diseases spread by tropical mosquitoes.
If we're not careful their habitat will spread through our addiction to fossil fuels.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control,and some of the science journals,we're already in the midst of it.
Disease vectors are spreading north.
Flora are attempting to migrate,but their relocation 'velocity' can't match the temporal and spatial velocity of temperature rise.
Flora at alpine locations may be sequestered at the snowline and simply go extinct where they are,unable to move upwards out of the warmth.
Forests are dying from new invasives.
Fauna are dying from new tick-borne invasives,(via mosquitos)
Liberal use of antibiotics have produced some superbugs which are impervious to all extant antibiotic arsenals.
Crops are dying directly from heat stress.
Crops are dying from mutation-driven adaptive pesticide resistance.
Crops are dying from mutation-selective GMO resistance
Crops are dying from mutation-selective fungicide resistance
Crops are dying from mutation-selective RNA intervention resistance
Crops are dying from new warmth/moist fungal invasions(blight,rusts)
Crop harvests are failing from E-coli adulteration from new,invasive species'fecal contamination.
Agri-business harvesters are dying in the fields from renal failure due to elevated latent heat effects.
Yellow fever
Dengue fever
Zika virus
Lymes disease
AIDS-II
Tuberculosis
Malaria
Hantavirus
Ebola