[tommydoesntknow]

It will allow, if it doesn't already, a competent virologist in a Level 2 containment facility - think dentist office with instruments only marginally more sophisticated than dental ones - to create a virus with intent that will decimate or eliminate all of humanity. This will likely happen soon, so consider that you may have to live where you are now for the rest of your life, because a threat such as this, which is very real and ultimately a when-not-if scenerio means to stop such a thing, we quarantine ourselves down to local airlock. We stay where we are essentially for the rest of our lives. That said, I'm packing my bags for Hawaii right now.

Re: climate impact. No people, no climate change. Broad brush, but evident.