Yip, this is definitely a serious threat, one that will affect the rich in ways that climate change won't so immediately do. Probably a good thing in terms of

Yip, this is definitely a serious threat, one that will affect the rich in ways that climate change won't so immediately do. Probably a good thing in terms of finding a solution ;) I did come across (I forget where) a very interesting talk which was outlining new techniques in antibiotics. The basic idea was that instead of straight out killing them (in which some breed resistance) instead you get in the middle of their chemical signals and basically tell them to attach before they've reached the point where the immune system won't win. Still, bacteria being bacteria they'll probably work their way around it, but maybe rewriting your messaging system is a little harder than breeding resistance.