InSEAD A well-known environmental economist, Atalay Atasu, tells a story.
In the second half of last year, fishermen in Cyprus and Greece discovered a strange new species of marine fish that was supposed to survive only in the Indian and Red Seas. As a result of the warming climate and the widening of the Suez Canal, these "lionfish" (Fig. 1, 2) and some other marine species have migrated from the Suez Canal on a large scale (Fig. 3). Originally, these species needed warm waters, but over the past many years, the water temperature in the Mediterranean has risen by 20% faster than the global average every year, and even the red sea fish species have adapted quickly and begun to multiply.
This has disrupted both the local fishing industry and threatens the local fish and shellfish species. Some of these fish are poisonous and inedible, some infringe on local species, and some fish (Fig. 4) are not only poisonous themselves, eating to death, but also directly biting through the fishermen's nets to eat other fish inside.... This kind of fish dominates your family's sea, eats your family's fish, there is no natural enemy, and it is impossible to eat.
Similarly, when it comes to monkeypox, he says it's hard to say whether the spread of monkeypox is related to climate change. But the climate crisis is indeed changing the ecology. The same is true of viruses, which are also accelerating their evolution. This is the natural change brought about by the climate crisis, which has changed the rate of evolution of many biological species.
