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All of those play a part, but human population and especially urban/slum density without adequate infrastructure is the main driver.

As human population increases - which is a good thing - some sort of worldwide health system will have to be established or disparate health systems in different areas will keep presenting new diseases.

Smallpox was only eradicated once China jumped on board and helped in part with vaccinating Africa.

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As human population increases - which is a good thing -

:doubt:

Isn’t it more of a neutral thing?

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Depends on if you are human or not.

Not so great if you are animal swimming in the sea or running through the forest.

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Depends more on if they are USians/Euros or central African, or if they’re rich or poor. There’s a certain kind of people of whom there are too many

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without adequate infrastructure

Yeah totally.

I always try to frame this as an infrastructure issue, even if number of people is the thing putting pressure on the infrastructure. Just like when Hexbear is slow because a lot of people are online, those people are just the ones putting pressure on hexbear’s infrastructure

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