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The following article I found it on the internet, sharing here might help us to think a bit more seriously.
Global warming is not only a threat to our future health, it already contributes to more than 150,000 deaths and 5 million illnesses annually, according to a team of health and climate scientists at the World Health Organization and the University of Wisconsin at Madison—and those numbers could double by 2030.
Research data published in the journal Nature show that global warming may affect human health in a surprising number of ways: speeding the spread of infectious diseases such as malaria and dengue fever; creating conditions that lead to potentially fatal malnutrition and diarrhea; and increasing the likelihood of heat waves and floods.
Scientists believe that greenhouse gases will increase the global average temperature by approximately 6 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century. Extreme floods, droughts and heat waves, such as Europe's 2003 heat wave, are likely to strike with increasing frequency. Other factors such as irrigation and deforestation can also affect local temperatures and humidity.
According to the UW-Madison and WHO team, other model-based forecasts of health risks from global climate change project that:
• Climate-related disease risks of the various health outcomes assessed by WHO will more than double by 2030.
• Flooding as a result of coastal storm surges will affect the lives of up to 200 million people by the 2080s.
• Heat related deaths in California could more than double by 2100.
• Hazardous ozone pollution days in the Eastern U.S. could increase 60 percent by 2050.
Well the problem has already gone worse and is quite big to tackle, but if we think that what can we do for such a huge problem? We can’t help it anyway! Then just to remind that we individuals have taken choices earlier, which is why we are here at this situation, and we individuals have to take choices again to save us from this slow poison which is killing us bit by bit and growing minute by minute.
Let us from now try to minimize our consumption, before it gets too late, where we are forced to do so. Let’s live a more energy-efficient life!
I am sure none of us would ever want to be a part of the 150,000 people dying due to global warming every year!
The following article I found it on the internet, sharing here might help us to think a bit more seriously.
Global warming is not only a threat to our future health, it already contributes to more than 150,000 deaths and 5 million illnesses annually, according to a team of health and climate scientists at the World Health Organization and the University of Wisconsin at Madison—and those numbers could double by 2030.
Research data published in the journal Nature show that global warming may affect human health in a surprising number of ways: speeding the spread of infectious diseases such as malaria and dengue fever; creating conditions that lead to potentially fatal malnutrition and diarrhea; and increasing the likelihood of heat waves and floods.
Scientists believe that greenhouse gases will increase the global average temperature by approximately 6 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century. Extreme floods, droughts and heat waves, such as Europe's 2003 heat wave, are likely to strike with increasing frequency. Other factors such as irrigation and deforestation can also affect local temperatures and humidity.
According to the UW-Madison and WHO team, other model-based forecasts of health risks from global climate change project that:
• Climate-related disease risks of the various health outcomes assessed by WHO will more than double by 2030.
• Flooding as a result of coastal storm surges will affect the lives of up to 200 million people by the 2080s.
• Heat related deaths in California could more than double by 2100.
• Hazardous ozone pollution days in the Eastern U.S. could increase 60 percent by 2050.
Well the problem has already gone worse and is quite big to tackle, but if we think that what can we do for such a huge problem? We can’t help it anyway! Then just to remind that we individuals have taken choices earlier, which is why we are here at this situation, and we individuals have to take choices again to save us from this slow poison which is killing us bit by bit and growing minute by minute.
Let us from now try to minimize our consumption, before it gets too late, where we are forced to do so. Let’s live a more energy-efficient life!
I am sure none of us would ever want to be a part of the 150,000 people dying due to global warming every year!
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