Historians describe the Black Death as something that just “occurred” at the end of the Middle Ages. They don’t make the connection: the Black Death did not just “occur”; it was the biological event that ended the Middle Ages. And the world is overdue for another biological event. If it doesn’t happen soon, how many species will disappear, how many beautiful tracts of primeval rain forest will vanish forever? If the public health doctors keep up their work, they will practically destroy the world.
