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by David Turell , Friday, September 29, 2023, 21:07 (210 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: No, I like recognizing proportionality of the problems you over-magnify.

dhw: There is no magnification. Evils such as war, murder, rape, famine, flood, disease all exist, and the ratio of good to bad does not explain how such evil can result from the deliberate work of an all-good God.

DAVID: The bolded all can come from human evil: floods due to ill-kept dams in Libya; disease from poor sanitation and lack of providing for immunity-giving shots. Famine is poor planning by governments. An all-good God gave us free will to both create and solve problems.

See this article:

https://www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagazine/library/item/29_september_2023/4...

"When the World Health Organization called attention in 2022 to a surge in cholera outbreaks around the globe, it listed the usual factors that favor waterborne diseases: lack of sanitation, humanitarian crises, and conflict. But it also said climate change was worsening the situation.

"Cholera is caused by Vibrio cholerae, a bacterium that can produce a toxin and spreads when the stool of infected people contaminates drinking water and food. Microbiologist Rita Colwell has long argued that warmer surface waters can favor the emergence of the bacterium. Whether this plays any role in the large outbreaks around the globe is contested. But another climate link is clear. Floods can aid spread by causing latrines to overflow into water sources, for instance, and droughts can boost the concentration of the bacterium in shrinking ponds and streams and force people to use unsafe water.

"Climate change is making such extreme weather events more frequent, so cholera is likely to surge in a warming world, says Andrew Azman, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University. But there is little consensus on the magnitude of the effect. “It is really, really hard to attribute any of the current cholera cases to climate change,” Azman says—in large part because there are few good long-term data on cholera. The same caveat applies to other waterborne diarrheal diseases, which some researchers suspect will also increase in a warmer world."

Comment: All here can be human controlled. And climate disasters can be anticipated: don't build in flood plains!