Oh how anti-biotics can be becoming less effective working to kill off adapting diseases/bacteria.
Personally I think it will be some form of superbug that causes us issues long before the effects of climate change come into play. This will be followed closely by overpopulation and the demand for food outweighing supply.
What are your thoughts?
Bacteriophages will probably solve that problem in the medium turn. In the long term nanotechnology will.
probably something accidental like the flu researchers who want to see if they can mutate the H5N1 virus to make it easily transmittable from human to human which it can’t do naturally very well yet to study it.
Statistically H5N1 will mutate one day in the not too distant future. I believe all the mutations they had were found in the wild, they just combined them. The difference is do you want the ‘white coats’ who obviously don’t know what they’re doing preempting it by mutating it themselves and creating a vaccine, whilst running a very very very low risk of it getting out of a CAT IV lab. Neither is the mortality rate likely to be as high as the often quoted 50 percent level.
Also where are you getting your data on biosecurity breaches? The Guardian?
Besides, the only things that will wipe out the human race is an atomic war, a large asteroid, yellowstone or transhumanism.
The flu won’t and neither will climate change.