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Disasters in the future JiaYuan He Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, P. R. China.

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Disasters in the future

JiaYuan He

Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, P. R. China.

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Present Disasters:

But we neglect some serious potential dangers:

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In biological or medical experiments, bacteria, virus, and animals such as mouse, dog, monkey, rabbit are used to do experiments.

Animals or microbes are used to verify researchers’ hypotheses.

Sometimes things go as they assumed. But the results are Always beyond their expectations!

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we always treat experimental animals or microbes with a new drug before putting it on the market.

So, who knows what effect the new drug will have on the animals?

we always knock off animals’ or microbes’ genes or transfer them to other creatures.

What if we turn them into real monsters?

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One day, some great changes are taking place on the animals or bacteria that we use to do some dangerous experiments. Some of them sneak from the labs or maybe we just dump them because of uselessness.

Since then the peaceful world will never be peaceful.

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Mutant microbes may cause strange diseases, especially infectious diseases like SARS. For example, mutant microbe like prion may cause great panic.

Mutant animals may become much bigger, poisonous, or fast reproductive and cause diseases or disasters like locust plague.

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A scientific fiction: robots used to work for us take control of the world and human become the slaves of them.

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First, when researchers apply for using animals or microbes to do dangerous experiments on a large scale, there must be a very strict supervisory and administering system.

Second, researchers should well consider the welfare of experimental animals.

Third, researchers should record the daily status of experimental animals.

Fourth, we should set up strict rules of disposing useless animals and microbes.

Fifth, some dangerous experiments should be banned.