Every article I read about global warming and climate change since 1978 predicted new viruses. Every one
By: Kay Ebeling
Tags: Global Warming, Ecology, Coronavirus, Environmental Impact, Climate Change

Every article I read about global warming and climate change since 1978 predicted new viruses. Every one Kay Ebeling Feb 16·4 min read

Right now I think the virus is outsmarting the humans

By Kay Ebeling

In 1978 fresh out of college with a bachelor’s degree, I got hired by NASA as a writer-editor in their newsroom in Houston. My senior year at UT Austin I lobbied myself into the job because I was a real space program enthusiast at the time, thought I’d even be a journalist in space if I continued on that career path. Then five years later I was back in L.A. at a PR firm, and today I think people who want to go into space are …misguided. With the effects low-gravity has on a human body, believe me, traveling in space is for machines not people.

However, I left NASA Houston with knowledge and information that at the time I didn’t realize was important, but today haunts me and enters my mind several times a day.

I learned in 1978 that the planet was heating too fast, at an alarming rate, and the effects could be devastating if we did not take action right now. Then. 1978. I learned this while interviewing a geologist about his annual trips to Antarctica to collect stray asteroid rocks that land there. After the interview as I was packing up to leave his office he changed to a more excited tone and called out, “You know what’s really alarming is the planet is heating up and heating too fast.” I stopped to listen and he continued. He said every time he goes to Antarctica “you can see it, it’s obvious. The ice caps are melting at an alarming rate.” I asked, isn’t that just something that happens in cycles and he got more excited. “Yes that’s true but this is different. The amount of ice that is melting is not like anything that’s happened before. In centuries. This is the planet heating from all the CO2 and methane we are pouring into the air.” I was still kind of young and in way over my head on that job, so I think I scampered back to my office without asking more questions, dang.

But I never forgot what the NASA geologist said about the planet heating too fast, and I never forgot the passion in his face. He was really alarmed.

After that, now and then there would be an article about global warming, and I’d read it and remember what the geologist said. And since that first conversation in 1978, I’ve read a lot of articles. And EVERY ARTICLE I read about global warming and climate change predicted new viruses would accompany a heating planet. EVERY ONE.

EVERY ARTICLE I read about global warming and climate change predicted new viruses. EVERY ONE

I don’t know why no one in today’s news media is mentioning the connection between global warming and new viruses but … they used to before the covid 19 viruses hit.

At age 72, I have come to attribute life qualities to Earth, to think of the planet as a living organism with an immune system. It produces fire and flood and it ejects micro organisms to protect itself, just like humans produce antibodies to fight disease. Earth is just trying to stay alive and right now she’s becoming overrun by parasites on two legs who keep trying to kill her.

So Earth has produced an RNA strand that humans call covid with an amazing ability to mutate so that no matter what the humans do, the RNA strand virus will keep on infecting.

I think the planet itself produced the Covid virus in 2019 and is still producing more versions of that and other viruses, because Earth wants the humans to STOP. Look around and see what you are doing to the planet and STOP. And if the only way the planet can get the humans to stop is to force them to stay away from each other or die, then Mother Earth will do what she has to do to protect her own. Interesting that crowds are most infectious places.

Right now I think the virus is outsmarting the humans, because most humans are UNWILLING to adapt and change. As I observe from my mountain top apartment, I think of the dinosaurs who kept on going to the tar pits even after other dinosaurs died there over and over, so determined were they to get water, in what they call Los Angeles today.

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Evolution, I think, is creation ongoing. It did not stop after seven days as some Vatican monk wrote in the Bible. Evolution and creation are still going on, and

… no one mentions global warming connection to new viruses. They used to before Covid-19.