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Was with you up to: > If fungi are killing more people, it's because people have changed, not the fungi. That's an overreach. It could be either or both. Obvi
by eloff 5y ago
Was with you up to:
> If fungi are killing more people, it's because people have changed, not the fungi.
That's an overreach. It could be either or both. Obviously fungi are evolving rapidly as you yourself point out.
- bdamm 5y agoRight; but they've been evolving rapidly the entire time. So they're still doing what they've always done. If the environment is changing, and people are changing, and that's causing us to be vulnerable to conditions we weren't previously vulnerable to, then that's a problem caused by people changing. These stories look for a villain, and seem to end up villainizing the fungus, which is good for sensationalism but not very useful for understanding what is actually happening.