Climate change is not just the natural change of the earth, it is bigger than that. Yes, to an extent it is natural but there comes a point when it's not, like when humanity begins to make it so bad that it starts to put people in danger. Here are the ways it puts us in danger and how to help prevent further damage.
How it is Killing People:
Amplified dangerous heat waves cause deaths all around the world and heighten hypertension and mental problems, and also limit the effectiveness of certain medications. When people's bodies reach a certain temperature or above, organ failure begins to occur. Heatwaves have killed over a thousand people in France alone during the summer of 2019.
Polluted air. Which causes an estimate of 600,000 deaths each year in children under 5 years old and causes problems in brain development in children of all ages, and in adults, it causes many respiratory and circulatory diseases and accelerates cognitive deterioration in older adults.
Communicable diseases. Increased rainfall and higher temperature are favored by certain diseases, like those caused by parasites, viruses, and bacteria and transmitted by mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas. Mosquitoes already cause half a million deaths each year.
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What Humanity Needs to Reduce:
–Water Vapor. Human causes of water vapor include deforestation, burning fossil fuels, and land-use changes.
–Methane. Human causes include decomposition in landfills and agriculture.–Nitrous Oxide. “A powerful greenhouse gas produced by soil cultivation practices, especially the use of commercial and organic fertilizers, fossil fuel combustion, nitric acid production, and biomass burning.” According to NASA.
–Chlorofluorocarbons. “Synthetic compounds entirely of industrial origin used in a number of applications, but now largely regulated in production and release to the atmosphere by international agreement for their ability to contribute to the destruction of the ozone layer. They are also greenhouse gases."
How We (As Individuals) Can Help Prevent Further Damage
As I said at the beginning of this post, part of climate change is inevitable, we cannot stop climate change completely, but what we can do is reduce the human impact that pushes it along and makes it worse. Here are some of the ways you can help:
Save energy in any way possible.
Donate to the cause.
Spread the word.
Reduce, reuse, and recycle.
OTHER SIMPLE WAYS TO HELP & GET INVOLVED:
1.) Pick up your trash and if the trash can is full, carry your trash to the next trash can. 2.) Use a reusable water bottle. They sell some cool organic ones on chnge.com 3.) Use reusable bags. 4.) Print as little as possible. If you can't help this, recycle. 5.) Recycle. Recycle. Recycle. 6.) Save electricity and use energy-efficient light bulbs. 7.) Shop Virtually. 8.) Donate clothes and buy second hand. 9.) Wash clothes as few times as possible and find other ways to save water. 10.) Carpool, use public transportation, walk, or ride a bike.
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