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According to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, extreme temperatures lead to several serious diseases in certain areas. It can also increase air and water pollution, which in turn harm human health.
But, experts say that the most direct effect of climate change would be the impacts of hotter temperatures themselves, as for example, heart patients become more vulnerable then as one’s cardiovascular system must work harder to keep the body cool during hot weather. Some respiratory problems also increase with heat exhaustion.
* Disastrous consequences of global warming!
Similarly, though it is predicted that over the next 25 years -
• Annual AIDS deaths will soar from 2.8 million deaths in 2002 to 6.5 million worldwide in 2030!
• Depression will be second only to AIDS as a cause of debilitating illness!
• Tobacco-related deaths will increase from 5.4 million in 2005 to 8.3 million in 2030!
• Smoking will kill 50% more people by 2030, than it currently does!
• Pneumonia and pulmonary diseases like emphysema makes up the rest of the top five both then and now!
* Here are some good effects of global warming!
The good news has come from the World Health Organization, which says -
• With rising temperatures, the world’s poor will become wealthier, live longer and stop dying of infectious diseases, by around 2030!
• The risk of dying before the age of five could be halved across the world by then.
Though, the World Bank has predicted that the economic growth in Africa is bright with a growth of 2% per year (as opposed to the 0.5% per year achieved in the 1990s), the team factored in this; predicting of a ‘dramatic’ shift in dying from infancy to old age may not materialize in Africa, if the economic growth is much slower - perhaps due to a large economic impact of AIDS!
* But how good is the prediction?
In 1996, the WHO made its first long-range prediction of global health.
– It turned out to be wrong in several key respects - for example, most notably, there were more AIDS and less tuberculosis than predicted!
Colin Mathers of the WHO in Geneva, who led the study admits,
We’re not saying this is definitely what will happen at all... But health officials should have the best idea we can arrive at now of what seems likely to happen, so they can prepare.
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Yes, we can fight this:
If we analyze the technological advancements and the speed with which we’re imbibing these into our lifestyles, I’m sure the benefits would percolate through sooner than expected. Very soon, we’ll see complete elimination of fossil fuel use, replaced by electricity produced by green sources like advanced solar cells, trapping wind and hydro energy and what not. And, I’m sure that will be done and incorporated before fossil fuels breathe their last. In India too, we’ve already applied green Euro standards and almost all new vehicles come with ‘green’ certification, though we still have a long way to go. Now take the increasing use of LED bulbs, which are energy efficient, eco-friendly and more powerful. Once we used to burn wood and coal to fulfill our energy requirements and I’m sure no one ever imagined how fast use of LPG gas completely eliminated it, paying path for a green future.
And all these advancements are possible only because we’re damn serious and there are countless examples which would clear this fact. To be frank, I’m very optimistic about this issue and the recent reports and all the hullabaloo, though necessary, are mere encouraging signals, though true, that we must not lay down our arms and keep fighting. And, Irani too has pointed out above that in many a cases, reports have proved wrong and it’ll prove wrong all predictions soon, keep watching.
Ya AIDS will be there but in near future I think science will find a solution for it but a depression is a thing that can be cured on one-on-one basis and the second thing that world health org should not neglect
check this—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_field
The ministers will get crore\’s of rupees for such projects but the only thing that will happen is that their personal bank accounts will swell and we will only have around a thousand hybrids and an equal number of scandals through the next 25 years
There is an interesting concept that space scientist community is thinking to reduce the Global warming——- http://www.spacescan.org/entry/cooling-the-earth-with-a-cloud-of-small-spacecraft/
See, we all know that the key driver of disease patterns is growing prosperity. Generally, as countries get richer, (as mentioned in the post– ‘the World Bank has predicted that the economic growth in Africa is bright with a growth of 2% per year (as opposed to the 0.5% per year achieved in the 1990s’), they can afford the hygiene and vaccination measures that wipe out diseases of poverty, mainly infectious diseases.
So, what remains are – (as mentioned in the post)—‘the most direct effect of climate change would be the impacts of hotter temperatures themselves, as for example, heart patients become more vulnerable then as one’s cardiovascular system must work harder to keep the body cool during hot weather’.
So, if the impact of AIDS does not slow down the economic growth (as predicted by World Bank) of poor countries like Africa, there will be a “dramatic” shift in dying from infancy to old age — as mentioned too in the post, thus can not only allow them live longer, but also make them wealthier.
I only that global warming is gonna make us poorer, don’t believe me check...Yes Pankja, you are exactly giving the information we all have been aware of these days... and have been the base of further findings of various research papers across the world... But, this finding is a recent study by the World Health Organization, who have their own reasonable explainations.
The after-effects of global warming are more disastrous, compared to the negligible constructive ones.