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The Guardian reports that according to a Bureau of Investigative Journalism study, colistin, an "antibiotic of last resort," is used by the tonnes by Indian farms to make the poultry gain weight a little bit faster. And all of this is perfectly legal. The World Health Organization (WHO) calls antibiotic resistance "a major threat to public health".
Another reason to eat less meat I guess. Like we needed one.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @07:49PM (3 children)
Hear, hear. May the next species to evolve the capability for high technology find the ruins of our great cities and spend a good amount of time in meditation.
It could be that the first species to evolve technology on a planet will always destroy itself in its arrogance. Yet Earth abides. Another will come along, and perhaps they will be receptive to the failures of the first technological species.
The Galactic Federation can wait millions of years for intelligent life on Earth to join the rest of the galaxy. There is no reason the first species from Earth that fires up a torrent for the Encyclopaedia Galactica need be the self-styled h. "sapiens".
(Score: 4, Interesting) by dwilson on Saturday February 03 2018, @12:48AM (2 children)
I remember reading somewhere that the odds of a 'second rise of civilization' on Earth are astronomically low, due to the first rise (us) having already consumed all the easy to access resources. Think shallow ore and coal deposits and the like. What's left, for the most part, just wouldn't be accessible to pre-bronze age technology levels.
Maybe that isn't accurate. Or maybe it is, but if you go long-term enough (millions+ years) it'll sort itself out as plate tectonics take a hand in things. I don't know. I can think of one sure-fire way to find out, though. Anyone want to lobby President Twitter to press the button?
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(Score: 1) by therainingmonkey on Saturday February 03 2018, @11:41AM
That might be true, but all the junk from our civilisation will likely be lying around on the surface ready to be used/reused/recycled.
(Score: 2) by wisnoskij on Saturday February 03 2018, @02:53PM
We are already long past that. For the Western world we are in our second at least, but depending on how you count that number could be a lot higher.