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[–] BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] brahmsss@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year 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?

[–] bluejay@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

They're probably the same based on file size

[–] Raphael@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year 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.

[–] BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Have you read the book?

[–] danhasnolife@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year 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.

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Surely all of these floods have nothing to do with climate change and we should just keep right on using fossil fuels.

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social -3 points 1 year ago

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

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