Climate Change Persuasive Essay

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Maria Vidal
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Geography M131
Why Should We Care about Climate Change?

Climate change is not only currently detrimental to our planet; it will also be detrimental to our health. In an article titled, Climate Change Challenges and Opportunities for Global Health, author Jonathon A Patz focuses on the correlation of climate change and world health, he believes that it is important for clinicians to better understand this phenomenon in order to educate their patients. Climate change is real and it is happening rapidly, it is important that people are educated and understand the toll this will take on human health worldwide. Greenhouse gas emissions have been exceeding rapidly over the last decade. This has caused the earth to warm up by 2 degrees every year. Temperature, precipitation, sea level rise, and ocean acidification are other factors that are slowly being altered do to climate change. Scientist predict that if humans destructive activity continues it will most likely be that in our lifetime we will see a drastic change in the environment that we live in today. …show more content…

This will soon become reality if climate change continues to warm our planet. All of these diseases will be caused by changes in the environment; heat related disorders will have to do with the warming of the planet, respiratory disorders will be because of the pollution in the air, infectious diseases will be because of the pollution of water (waterborne diseases), food insecurity will be do to the loss of crops or inability to grow them, and mental disorders will be caused when natural disasters begin to

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