{"id":2453458,"date":"2020-01-20T20:16:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T03:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/we-are-the-killer-strain\/"},"modified":"2020-01-21T10:15:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T17:15:42","slug":"we-are-the-killer-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/we-are-the-killer-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"We are the killer strain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Roger Marolt\u2019s apocalyptic description of the approaching climate catastrophe (\u201cPaying now or paying later \u2014 either way it\u2019s gonna hurt,\u201d<\/a> commentary, Jan. 17, aspentimes.com) brought to mind a special experience I had in my sophomore year at Indiana University. Being in the School of Arts and Sciences, I had to take a science class.<\/p>\n

The only one open was a senior-level genetics class. I didn\u2019t know it when I signed up, but the professor turned out to be a Nobel laureate named Tracy Sonneborn. He won the prize for discovering the killer stain of the paramecium.<\/p>\n

If you put paramecia in a limited culture, they will reproduce normal single-cell organisms until the food runs out. Then, they\u2019ll start giving birth to killer strains that go around killing other paramecia until the population is under control.<\/p>\n

I see parallels between this phenomenon and our current climate dilemma. The limited culture is planet Earth. The normal paramecia are all other life. The killer strain is mankind. We\u2019ve been gobbling up the world\u2019s resources as if there\u2019ll be no end.<\/p>\n

So, to make room, we\u2019re causing mass extinctions of species. Soon, that won\u2019t be enough and we\u2019ll hafta eliminate our own kind. By that time the Earth will be so miserable, the living will envy the dead.<\/p>\n

Does this kinda talk frighten you? It should. The time for talk and writing is over. The time for action is here.<\/p>\n

Fred Malo Jr.<\/p>\n

Carbondale<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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