COVID COVERS UP A BIGGER THREAT

One plague, when big enough, occludes others, and the coronavirus pandemic has, for six months now, almost fully eclipsed the very real,very large, and very pressing threat of climate change. Even as the United States normalizes a pandemic plateau producing roughly a thousand deaths every day, with continuing national failure to contain the spread of the disease becoming maddeningly familiar old news, COVID-19 is still preventing us from seeing clearly the wreckage being done by global warming, particularly elsewhere in the world, in parts of the global South where Americans and Europeans prefer not to look.

Since the beginning of the year, billions of locusts produced by climate disruptions to local weather patterns have descended in clouds of as many as 80 million insects on some of the world’s most food-insecure regions, chewing up the croplands of the Horn of Africa, the Sahel, India, and Pakistan, pushing perhaps 5 million people to the brink of starvation and threatening the livelihood of as much as 10 percent of the world’s population. Just months after a historic cyclone “pummeled” the country, about a third of Bangladesh was underwater from torrential rains and flooding, while temperatures across the Middle East soared above 50 degrees Celsius In Iraq,where it reached 52, the heat wave was compounded by power outages depriving Iraqis of air-conditioning that was, in these circumstances, almost literally a lifeline. Last month, as many as 38 million were evacuated to avoid hundreds of simultaneous river floods in China, where some regions received twice as much rain as normal in June and July, and where the massive Three Gorges Dam was sufficiently stressed by the excess rainfall it has produced fears, likely premature, that the epic dam itself might collapse.

In the Atlantic, there have been already nine named storms this season, a mark that is typically reached only in October, and the updated NOAA forecast for the remainder of the year projects between three and six major hurricanes,and a total of 19 to 25 storms — meaning there’s a decent chance we will fully exhaust the alphabet in our naming of storms and move on to Greek. As a whole, the hurricane season is expected to be twice as intense as “normal.” In the midst of a pandemic, in a country that can’t muster the logistical capacity to control it, we will be functionally facing down two serious hurricane seasons at once.

BESIDES THIS ALL THERE IS A NEARLY NOT MENTIONED AND FULLY IGNORED CONTAMINATION FROM AIR BORNE PARTS IN THE AIR,THAT YOU CAN FIND UNDER THE CODE P.M. 2.5 WHICH ARE A TREMENDOUS THREAT FOR PEOPLE WITH BREATHING PROBLEMS; AND.. EVEN OTHER CIVILIZED DISEASES AS FOR INSTANCE DIABETES AND HEART DISTURBANCES. -

IS THIS THE WORLD THAT WE WILL PASS ON TO THE NEXT GENERATIONS? IF SO LET'S SUPPORT THE PROGRAMS FROM NASA AND OTHER SPACE PROGRAMS AND QUICKLY FIND ANOTHER PLANET FOR MY GRAND CHILDREN TO LIVE ON

Prof. Guy Van Elsacker DrSc. www.science4thefuture.com