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    Re: That Chinese Lab leak Archived Message

    Posted by Tomski on July 27, 2022, 5:05 pm, in reply to "That Chinese Lab leak "

    The politicised story of laboratory orgins has slowed down co-ooperation on finding the real cause, which is industrialised farming

    I wish that was the true cause, on it's own, assuming their analysis is correct. At the end of the day, the bats sold at the Wuhan market were not 'farmed'. Proximity to humans may have something to do with it which is extending that dimension.

    Industrial farming has developed to rapidly cater and provide sustenance to 8 billion humans. One has a choice perhaps, change the method to something less environmentally damaging and sustainable. This requires a political will which is missing, especially in the west. Malthusian type of 'solution' is unlikely to have legs imo - they tried it China with 'one child policy'. It seems that planet population growth numbers seem to be plateauing, which helps. I'd say in the west we need to change, but predatory capitalism is unlikely to allow it.

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