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I prefer climate issues over tuberculosis and polio.
Climate change will likely bring a host of new diseases that have been frozen in permafrost for thousands of years.
I'm not trying to be doom and gloom, but unaddressed climate change could bring some serious consequences.
Do you have a source for this?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-earth-warms-the-diseases-that-may-lie-within-permafrost-become-a-bigger-worry/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/climate-change-will-result-in-new-viruses-and-risk-of-new-diseases-says-study
Diseases that may lie in permafrost give reason to worry. These articles are entirely speculative and openly alarmist in nature, I wouldn't trust them to sway your opinion if I were you.
There's never been a dormant disease that's been found and revived from permafrost that we have any reason to believe could infect human, let alone any explanation of how such a disease could make it into the human population just through the thawing of permafrost alone. It's not just that I don't think we have reason to worry, I actually think we have plenty of reason not to worry.