There is a simple explination of my apocalypse. Sciences will make us too powerful for our own good.

About a hundred years ago, medicine was still rather the same as in the earliest days of our country. Yes, I admit, there were several great leaps in the art of medicine, but it remained mostly the same for about a hundred years after the 1790s. Than the blood transfusion came. Local anestetics became commonplace. Sterility was revolutionized. Transplants came. Basic skin grafting and burn unit care was born along with the IV.

Now we have cloning, genetic abnormality detection, a possible vaccine for AIDS, etc… In 20 or so years, we’ll be living over a hundred easily. So, my point?

Truly lethal diseases have 2 things in common. These are: longevity and adaptation. Ebola, AIDS, Hepatitis B, these are very new diseases on the finge of medical sciences. So, they’ll adapt. They’ll shrink telomeres (read Popular Science to find out about those) and kill in minutes.

Humans make nature adapt to themselves, we wont be able to adapt to these new virulent diseases because of their leathalness. Thus, we die, the bacteriophages die because they run out of pray, and the world goes back 3 million years, before mankind’s arrival.

December 30th, 2001 at 8:35 pm in Our Fault

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