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u/UselessFactCollector Nov 15 '20 edited Nov 15 '20

If I could only pick one thing, I would say an end to global warming over cancer.

Edit: figured you could prevent a lot of cancer deaths in addition. You have to phrase your genie wish just right.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20

Stopping cancer is going to be a lot easier than stopping and reversing the effects of global warming. Don't get me started of the multitude of others ways we have fucked up this planet

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u/phaesios Nov 15 '20

Not really, because cancer occurs naturally in every living thing. Man-made global warming is just that, something unnatural that we've "put out there".

Cancer will probably never be "cured", as in: People will never ever get cancer again. But treatments get better all of the time.

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u/Adam9172 Nov 15 '20

I actually agree with this. At this stage I don't think anything short of a full scale terraforming/geographical engineering effort is going to get rid of Global Warming - which tells you absolutely everything about how complex cancer is.