Scientists warned about climate change in 1965. Nothing was done

Re:Scientists warned about climate change in 1965. Nothing w... by ararar on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @02:51PM (#36128935)

Same situation for antibiotics. Fleming, in the actual Nobel prize acceptance speech, warned:

"It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them, and the same thing has occasionally happened in the body." <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1945/fleming/lect...>

And so today we have infections resistant to practically every known antibiotic. And it's getting worse.

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Re:Scientists warned about climate change in 1965. Nothing w... by myshpa on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @03:39PM (#36129545)

Approximately 70-80% of antibiotics are used in animal agriculture, primarily to promote faster growth or ensure animals survive until slaughter.

I wonder how big is the impact of residual antibiotics in meat and dairy on bacterial resistance.

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