Until about a decade ago there were barely any mosquitos in Kathmandu, even in the summers. Then they became a summer-only annoyances. Then the diseases came-dengue and malaria have become bigger summer diseases in the past three years. Then all of a sudden two years ago the mosquitoes stopped going away in the winters.
Last year's winter saw dengue epidemic for the first time.
And this year Kathmandu saw a new species of super tiny red mosquitoes that are resistant to all the existing anti- mosquito technologies. Also their bites are extra-annoying, you can't splat them like the regular bugs, and oh the winter dengue epidemic is normal now. It's a part of life no, there's no going back to the good old days.
Global warming has really facked s hit up and now we are starting to see the beginning of the cascading ' systemic failure that will destroy ecosystems and make many currency-inhabited places unlivable.
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