Modern life seems so paradoxically familiar that it obfuscates the environment we evolved 300.000 years ago. So, for starters: 1000 new chemicals [0] are synth

Modern life seems so paradoxically familiar that it obfuscates the environment we evolved 300.000 years ago. So, for starters: 1000 new chemicals [0] are synthesized each hour (!) with little to no environmental oversight over them. Our microbiome (protists, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses) seems to be a good proxy of how far we have strayed from the richness of our biochemical "informational flow" present 99.9...% of our time (evolutionary history). In H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (1898) the Martians are killed off by earthly pathogens or simply incompatibility. As noted in the article with H. pylori; "pathogens" are more often than not the result of an disturbed equilibrium, the modern world we indulge in is increasingly making us incompatible with earth's biochemical interface. By then trying to single out disease vectors the overall context gets completely lost. By emphasizing the biological role some perspective can be gained: "Viruses" are powerful accelerators [1][2] for an otherwise slow mutation rate. "Parasites" are relatively new connections which over time resolve themselves to a symbiotic relationships [3]. Even the much dreaded "parasitic worms" (helminths) have a great potential for immunotherapy [4]. In a sense this disconnect slowly began with agriculture/pastoralism in an effort to maximize the yield the environment turned hostile on us and so conceptually we introduced "pests" and declared war. A successful model: we are now extracting resources on a globalized industrial scale. Our powerful tools have changed the landscape yet we are basically operating under the same scarcity mindset of an farmer 10.000 years ago: We earn our bread to support our family and make our sacrifices (pay taxes/tributes) to shield us from the wrath (anarchy/forces of nature) of the gods. And indeed our human bandwidth to the biosphere becomes increasingly smaller while we hope - in that imagined scramble inherited from our ancestors - for an unlimited bandwith (e.g. to the spiritual world of eternal silicon) to free us from the tyranny and bondage of biological systems. [0]https://www.seeker.com/chemical-pollution-is-soaring-faster-than-we-can-measure-it-2231114982.html https://www.seeker.com/chemical-pollution-is-soaring-faster-... [1]https://whyy.org/segments/the-placenta-went-viral-and-protomammals-were-born/ https://whyy.org/segments/the-placenta-went-viral-and-protom... [2]https://archive.is/TMiUd https://archive.is/TMiUd [3]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hologenome_theory_of_evolution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hologenome_theory_of_evoluti... [4]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminthic_therapy#Hypotheses https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminthic_therapy#Hypothese...