Aslan
22nd January 2016, 23:24
As many of you know, climate change is one of the most destructive things that is happening to our planet right now. Eventually this will result in a crisis on a global scale, unlike anything we've seen before. However in my opinion a close second would the development of ''superbugs'', antibiotic resistant organisms that have no cure. This is terrifying in my opinion, as these organisms are now much more frequent than we thought they were.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xOPKl169SU
According to Dr. Arjun Srinivasan of the CDC in an interview on VICE,
''antibiotic resistance has been a problem for a very long time. What is different now than before is that in the past we always had another antibiotic that would bail us out of the problem of resistance. We don't have that luxury anymore, we're out in some instances. Some patients for whom we have no antibiotics! These are nightmare bacteria that have now developed resistance to every single antibiotic that was available to us''
The reporter than responded with ''so what happened, why can't we develop new antibiotics?'' Which was followed by with.
''The development of new antibiotics got a lot harder, the easier targets for antibiotics were all discovered and exploited; so if we don't keep up on the other side of the equation with new discovery, we will continue to find ourselves challenged by more with infections that we can't treat''
This shows in absolute sincerity our position. Not only has the oligopoly of the pharmaceutical industry been playing it safe in the market for maximum benefit. They obviously encourage people to buy and consume more of these drugs in order to gain profit, directly creating more superbugs.
The current medical health regime in the US is the most despicable thing you could ever imagine. Selling ineffective drugs on the market and distributing them to the general population. Even when they know it is completely ineffective. Now people are off searching for natural plants with medical properties to counteract the advance of disease. A noble cause, but on the long run almost completely useless. Because of the slow speed of research and the even slower opening of these drugs to the market, It means that it will give these pathogens plenty of time to develop into superbugs, or even develop immunity to the developed vaccine long before it hit the shelves of supermarkets. This is truly disgusting, a terrible side effect of capitalistic greed and misanthropy.
Many of these places where potential medical plants are found are also disappearing. Malaysian rain-forests (the home of millions of species of potential antibiotic) is being cut down for profit driven palm-oil plantations. You know what is terrible though? These workers who cut it probably don't want to do it, but since they live in a third-world country and need to feed their family. They have to stay to save themselves and their family, a sad thing but very true. Burning another bridge for humanity, all in the name of capitalistic profit.
The burning of the rain-forests removes carbon removing trees from the planet and ejects even more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, worsening the problem of climate change. Since the palm oil (found in almost everything in our marketplaces) industry needs to expand becuase of demand from the west, they cut more of these important forests in order to grow more and more products. See where this is going? I don't have to tell you that this is a systematic problem right? Because unless something miraculous happens, humanity will be most likely be swallowed by a global pandemic. And we all know that it can spread very quickly in our modern world. Hell, it only takes 12 hours to fly from New York to Rome, so any disease will go global.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xOPKl169SU
According to Dr. Arjun Srinivasan of the CDC in an interview on VICE,
''antibiotic resistance has been a problem for a very long time. What is different now than before is that in the past we always had another antibiotic that would bail us out of the problem of resistance. We don't have that luxury anymore, we're out in some instances. Some patients for whom we have no antibiotics! These are nightmare bacteria that have now developed resistance to every single antibiotic that was available to us''
The reporter than responded with ''so what happened, why can't we develop new antibiotics?'' Which was followed by with.
''The development of new antibiotics got a lot harder, the easier targets for antibiotics were all discovered and exploited; so if we don't keep up on the other side of the equation with new discovery, we will continue to find ourselves challenged by more with infections that we can't treat''
This shows in absolute sincerity our position. Not only has the oligopoly of the pharmaceutical industry been playing it safe in the market for maximum benefit. They obviously encourage people to buy and consume more of these drugs in order to gain profit, directly creating more superbugs.
The current medical health regime in the US is the most despicable thing you could ever imagine. Selling ineffective drugs on the market and distributing them to the general population. Even when they know it is completely ineffective. Now people are off searching for natural plants with medical properties to counteract the advance of disease. A noble cause, but on the long run almost completely useless. Because of the slow speed of research and the even slower opening of these drugs to the market, It means that it will give these pathogens plenty of time to develop into superbugs, or even develop immunity to the developed vaccine long before it hit the shelves of supermarkets. This is truly disgusting, a terrible side effect of capitalistic greed and misanthropy.
Many of these places where potential medical plants are found are also disappearing. Malaysian rain-forests (the home of millions of species of potential antibiotic) is being cut down for profit driven palm-oil plantations. You know what is terrible though? These workers who cut it probably don't want to do it, but since they live in a third-world country and need to feed their family. They have to stay to save themselves and their family, a sad thing but very true. Burning another bridge for humanity, all in the name of capitalistic profit.
The burning of the rain-forests removes carbon removing trees from the planet and ejects even more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, worsening the problem of climate change. Since the palm oil (found in almost everything in our marketplaces) industry needs to expand becuase of demand from the west, they cut more of these important forests in order to grow more and more products. See where this is going? I don't have to tell you that this is a systematic problem right? Because unless something miraculous happens, humanity will be most likely be swallowed by a global pandemic. And we all know that it can spread very quickly in our modern world. Hell, it only takes 12 hours to fly from New York to Rome, so any disease will go global.