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Climate change is one of those issues where you can draw a line between any problem and it. Maybe someone just ate an infected bat? Or got bit by a live infecte

• briandear 7y ago
  But suggesting such a thing spoils the “opportunity” this crisis is brings. If people can connect climate change to everything then they can use that to advance their agendas regardless of actual causality. The Catholic Church did that for centuries. Other religious groups have done the same thing — even going back to the Greeks and Romans where pissed-off Gods led to plagues and famines. You angered Zeus? Well here is a volcano to teach you a lesson and here is some fancy words to convince people of the truth of it.
• natch 7y ago
  True, to your first part. Question is, how did the bat come to be where it was. The flip side of being able to draw lines to climate change is that there’s a reason you can draw lines to it, namely the underlying reality that it touches just about everything, meaning it could in fact be playing a role. Obviously it’s not conclusive though. This may turn out to be one of the recurring themes of climate change linked problems: they are linkable in theory, but in practice it’s hard to be conclusive. With this theme continuing on for the next few centuries of human history as more problems emerge.