Global warming can do more damage to your health than just a heat stroke as a result from the increasing temperature. Though we often hear that mostly heat-related sickness and deaths are related to increasing temperature, the climate changes could also attack and impair human health with contaminated water and air, threats to food supplies, flood-related injuries and even possible collapsing of ecosystems.
As a result of global warming, bigger hurricanes and storms will hold more moisture. This was proven when Hurricane Katrina struck the city of New Orleans. It shows to the world that high amount moisture in a hurricane could bring more damage than the high winds bringing forth direct and indirect health issues. Moreover, dryer countries will be expected to suffer from longer droughts and heat waves that could seriously damage the worldwide food supplies.
To make things worse, about 13 of the 20 biggest cities in the world are located on coastal areas. When the sea level rises due to global warming, these cities’ water treatment plants, emergency response and health institutions will be defective. As most medical centers are situated in the heart of a city, the people will then have a harder time to look for medical attention. As a result of floods, clean water will be a hindrance to get causing widespread of diseases that related to food hygiene. According to statistics, more than 1.8 million people die each year from diarrheal diseases by dirty water and it is estimated to increase further.
The worsening of water quality will go hand-in-hand with the deterioration of the natural ecosystem around us. Though certain countries have good technologies to mitigate the effects of global warming, humankind can’t live without healthy ecosystem that provides us with clean air and water as well soil to produce food.
Ultimately, every single individual have to play their part in the reducing the effects of global warming for the future of our children and the human race.