| Show The Salt Lake Tribune lid he ch in- - tic re ng ng 00 id lt-n- - ile id id ie Millennium Creeps Up 1997 A23 MOVAD On Humanity NEW MUSEUM SAFIRO" From Previous Page The legendary dial with Its when it does it will raise sea level by a good 30 feet Bye bye Boston Adios Miami New Orleans adieu But well always have Denver Speaking of which this years meeting of the G-- 7 nations in the Mile High City brings up another millennial threat With the worlds NATIONWORLD Sunday November 30 booming and people and goods flying all over the planet theres always the possibility that somebody could catch a deadly disease in Borneo and spread it around Boston before he or she even felt sick In 1994 10 percent of the people who died between the ages of 1 and 49 did so suddenly and and presumably mysteriously from some unidentified infection economy Minnesota epidemiologist solitary dot framed by new squared lugs Flat sapphire crystal Black calfskin strap Swiss quartz Water resistant to 99 feet Available in polished stainless steel or with rich 18Kgold micron finish His or hers YOU CHOOSE: LENNOX S995 Starting at ARMSTRONG Mi- chael Osterholm told a congressional committee recently How can we as a nation invest only $42 million a year of federal resources into all infectious-diseas- e surveillance? Osterholm asked the committee The US military spends $225 million maintaining musical bands As those bands play on infectious diseases pop up around the globe In this decade there was plague in India cholera in South America and the ebola virus in Africa Meanwhile old standbys that health officials thought they had beat TB pneumococcus enterococcus are growing resistant to antibiotics Today we know very little about the very rapidly emerging problem of antibiotic-resistan- t bacteria and viruses Osterholm said We do know this: In 1918 before antibiotics were developed a global flu epidemic killed 20 million people Starting at Amana Alliance Heating & Air Conditioning 4843 S 500 W 266-500- 0 CEMOLOGISIS Fashion Place Mail 2669504 $995 Prices for normal installation for homes under 30 yrs old Financing Available OAC All Products on Display at: FORTIER JEWELERS starting at Crossroads Plaza 5340315 Human Threat: Of course it doesnt take a killer microbe to wipe out civilization Humans could do it themselves The end of the Cold War notwithstanding Russia and the United States each have 8000 to 10000 nuclear warheads at hand which is enough to totally destroy one another 10 or 20 times China has about 500 Britain and France have a few hundred each and Israel Pakistan and India are thought to have a few The big question down the road is China efflDOpOfe 03K5833 $ES CSSDfiS said David Wright an analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge Mass As Chinas military and economic power grow over the next 10 to 20 years China may decide to build more nuclear weapons he said Some people also worry that terrorists will get their hands on enough plutonium or uranium to build a nuke But Wright said that probably wont happen because it takes quite a bit of technology to build a bomb Chemical and biological weapons on the other hand are a piece of cake The Aum Shinrikyo cult killed 12 people when it released nerve gas on the Tokyo subway two years ago and many more could have died if the terrorists hadnt been so inept But even competent terrorists probably couldnt end the world with biological weapons An attack of anthrax bacteria that exposed 100000 people would kill nearly a third of them a paper in a recent issue of Emerging Infections Diseases estimated Again a catastrophe but not the kind thats going to wipe out an entire civilization arms-contr- Overpopulation Snag: To most people who think about these things the real threat the big challenge for humanity in the next millennium isnt dreaded diseases or crazed terrorists The g in the big threat to next millennium isnt the decimation of the world's population but its growth In the next century the number of people on the planet is expected to climb past 6 billion on its way to 8 10 or even 12 billion Its simply going to be harder and harder to keep all those people fed clothed and housed said Joel Cohen the author of How Many People Can the Earth Support? 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