An unknown illness kills over 50 people in part of Congo with hours between symptoms and death
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A ton already are!
Most viruses, we don't even notice them... the really virulent ones cause few, if any symptoms.
We just generally don't worry about them, is all.
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A misanthrope that cares about "innocent" people? Seems fishy.
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I mean, yes? Are there jackasses, douchebags, and shitbirds out there I should be worried about offending?
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That's a generalisation.
Plenty of people have reverence for the natural world.
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The image link is to the cover of The Premonition by Michael Lewis.
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Certainly not plenty, given what's happening.
And I don't mean empty rhetorical reverence.
Reverence would mean having a zero to positive net environmental impact. Like the Native Americans. They weren't perfect or necessarily peaceful between one another, but they practiced reverence towards the natural world.
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I try to take care of those little beings as best I can
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In general, value statements are meaningless and a sign of an inability to be articulate and specific in what an issue is. It's kinda why ad hominems are considered fallacies. Trump is a giant piece of shit though and that's fine to say
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That's subjective as it depends on your definition of reverence and of plenty.
That said, it's a very good point you raised initially and I wholeheartedly agree that it's a bit weird.
I agree that the natural world is, for all intents and purposes, analogous to a god.
I also agree that everyone, particularly the most pious of us, seem determined to disregard this god.
Religion is the wrong word, but I do wish that there was more focus on building appreciation for the natural world.
I'm reminded of the "solar punk" movement. There's an instance slrpnk.net which collates some of these ideas.
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We should really stop eating bats.
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I haven't seen the r-slur used since the mid 2000s, and now suddenly it's everywhere in the past 2-3 weeks. Why are we back-pedaling on even the most basic decencies?
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It also depends on its mortality rate. The, article says 50 died but over 900 infected.
Still incredibly high, but initially it seemed like it was much higher. If enough asymptomatic, or non deadly people catch it and pass it on, it's still pandemicable, just less effective.
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Yeah who has ever heard of bird flu?
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There are definitely religious and spiritual systems that revere nature, like paganism. It's the only thing that really makes sense to me.
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It’s the Congo.
King Leopold was one of history’s greatest monsters. Rubber tree plantations - they’d chop a hand off or worse if you didn’t make quota. (The Heart of Darkness, later retold as Apocalypse Now, later retold as Spec Ops: the Line.)
The region has been ravaged for the past two centuries. Remember Kony 2012? Those starving children could have been soldiers.
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I can think of cheaper!
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This does sound wild.
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spoken like someone trying to keep all the good bats for themselves
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Honestly, every last one of you can go have a nice day, as far as I'm concerned.
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That's also an old Soviet intelligence classic, so I'd bet you're spot on.
