The Unexpected Benefits of a Global Pandemic

What if covid-19 was a good thing for climate change?

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This article is going to sound like a conspiracy theory. But it isn’t. In the following paragraphs, we are simply going to look at some statistics, and draw some conclusions, based on the available data. The results may be a bit unnerving or even disturbing, and could very quickly lead us down a rabbit hole of paranoid conspiratorial thinking, but just try and keep your hat on, okay? (Not the tinfoil one).

Think about this: what is the number one crisis that is facing humanity as a whole right now? Hint: it is NOT Covid-19. While it is definitely a horrible situation that we should be doing everything we can to solve, at the end of the day, Covid-19 is a virus that given enough time, humanity will adapt to and overcome. We survived much worse than this. Just look at the Black Plague, a disease that wiped out literally ONE THIRD of the population of Europe, killing an estimated 25 million people over a four year period between 1347–1351.

Any way you slice it, any disease capable of wiping out over six million Europeans a year is catastrophic. And who knows, without our advances in modern medicine, maybe Covid-19 actually could be this serious of a crisis. Worldwide, as of today, covid has killed 1.5 million people in almost a…