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fastone1911 t1_jaapqam wrote

My entire point is that NO ONE should be living this high consumption lifestyle, but your point is that EVERYONE should.

Your way, everyone dies. My way, everyone lives simpler lives, but at least the biosphere doesn't collapse by 2060.

Also, you don't seem to understand that even green growth is an ecological disaster. There's no point getting emissions to 0 if we've destroyed ecosystems to do it. We've totally overextended in terms of ground water, top soil, fishing stocks, novel entities, land-system change and biochemical flows. These planetary boundaries, if continuously overshot, are enough to destroy us, even if emissions go to zero and atmospheric CO2 goes back to 350ppm.

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Fit_Equipment_7793 t1_jaaotn6 wrote

Oh yes it's going down. The FDA has had to explore using drugs that were previously rejected or taken off the shelf for safety reasons.

I think the widespread use of sanitizers and cleaners has to be a contributing factor. And I'm a nurse and use/order cleaning supplies all the time. Animal antibiotics and lack of antibiotic stewardship, plus food production en masse... is why superbugs are going to thrive.

The reality is that the microorganisms will always evolve and therapeutics will probably be able to keep up because of science. But watching a woman get IV antibiotics every 4 hours for 6 weeks, in multiple instances, makes me nervous.

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guspaz t1_jaaocoj wrote

I was referring more to small stealthy surface drones, like Ukraine's can carry a 200kg warhead and have a one-way range of 800km, but underwater drones... I mean, that's pretty much the literal definition of a torpedo, no? A modern Mark 48 torpedo has an estimated max range of 38 km at 55 kt or 50 km at 40 kt, probably even farther if you ran it slower... or if you weren't trying to fit it into a 21-inch-wide tube.

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