M12.9 Climate Change

What I personally find troubling about climate change is that humans are setting up themselves for extinction, but they are not doing anything progressive to address the issue. The government tells us to use less water by taking shorter showers and don't water your lawn, and take public transportation. However, I think these actions are too small to significantly address climate change. As a public health professional, I think we need to push for using renewable energy and decreasing animal livestock. It will be a challenge to convince the public to eat less meat and that eating meat is what greatly contributes to climate change. If I were to define and describe climate change to someone, I would say that it is extreme changes of the weather we normally see throughout the year, for example, warmer regions are experiencing higher rises in temperature, and colder regions are experiencing much lower temperatures than that usually would. Additionally, natural disasters are more extreme and catastrophic. I would also say that human health is also affected because homes are being destroyed, therefore facing displacement, and crops are also destroyed or aren't growing due to extreme weather changes, therefore depletion of food sources. Not only is it just physical health, but the stress and trauma that comes with experiencing natural disasters affect mental health as well.