Sorry for being slow on posts lately. I am working on writing something for a local paper about why drastic cuts in the bus system coverage in my city are a bad idea. This may slow down my posts here a little longer, but I am still doing research for good links for you.
Here is one about some connections being discovered between people having more strokes when exposed to air pollution. It is suspected that other unknown health problems are probably caused or exascerbated by air pollution. Both the ruptured blood vessel type of stroke and the blockage due to a blood clot are increased during heavy pollution. It is mentioned in the article on this link that blood may be rendered more "sticky" making blood flow harder, thus causing incresed strokes.
BBC NEWS | Health | Air pollution 'increases stroke risk'
A city I used to live in in California had a very bad problem with pollution. Particulates were one of the worst parts of it. Life insurance Actuaries calcilated that life expectancy in that city was lower due to the air pollution, so it cost more for life and health insurance if you lived there.
That city cancelled Little League baseball games if a few drops of rain fell, but the multiple baseball diamonds were full of kids during pollution alerts. During one of these pollution alerts, it was recommended that one not let one's children play outside at all, and especially not let them do much exercise outdoors. Every time there was a pollution alert there, some elderly or people with frail health or respiratory problems would die, often dropping dead while trying to walk down the street.
Here is another link about a climate change exacerbated disease. It is chronic kidney failure caused when people do hard work in the heat due to climate change and do not drink enough water. It was discovered in San Salvador South America. After that it was found that the disease was killing people all over the Caribbean and Central America. Then it was discovered to be occurring all around the world. Here is the link:
Climate change is turning dehydration into a deadly disease
It is about time for people to face up to what our waste products are doing to us now, and how much worse it will become in the near future.
I was planning to use this blog post to talk about what is happening in the Antarctic, but got distracted by the new diseases that I had not yet known about that are caused or made worse by climate change.
Here is an article about how what goes on in Antarctica will affect all of us:
This is how far seas could rise thanks to climate change
This article is milder than a lot I have seen. One of those mentioned that a complete meltdown of the Antarctic, Arctic and glaciers along with Greenland will displace half of the human race. Right now we are pretty sure to have 25% of the human race displaced by ocean rise due to climate change. So many people displaced all at once has never happened in history. Much smaller migrations have caused huge upheavals including wars. 25% of the human race being forced to flee for their lives or drown is going to be very hard to deal with. Doubling that is hard to even comprehend.
I have been studying climate change and other results of human activity on the Earth and its systems that we depend on to keep us healthy and alive, for over 40 years, but keep running across new stuff. Studying this for so long has given me a certain immunity to shock over it all. That immunity is not bullet-proof and I am sometimes unpleasantly jolted by new information anyway. I feel badly about the strong shock that people experience when they are very new to this kind of information. I suggest you look again at some of my ideas for solutions to our climate change problems, if you feel very discouraged.
Having you get discouraged so you feel like giving up is the last thing I want from sharing this information with you. That is why I put solutions first, before I got into explaining much about the problems and how bad they are. We do not need to give up. We have solutions.
Here is one about some connections being discovered between people having more strokes when exposed to air pollution. It is suspected that other unknown health problems are probably caused or exascerbated by air pollution. Both the ruptured blood vessel type of stroke and the blockage due to a blood clot are increased during heavy pollution. It is mentioned in the article on this link that blood may be rendered more "sticky" making blood flow harder, thus causing incresed strokes.
BBC NEWS | Health | Air pollution 'increases stroke risk'
A city I used to live in in California had a very bad problem with pollution. Particulates were one of the worst parts of it. Life insurance Actuaries calcilated that life expectancy in that city was lower due to the air pollution, so it cost more for life and health insurance if you lived there.
That city cancelled Little League baseball games if a few drops of rain fell, but the multiple baseball diamonds were full of kids during pollution alerts. During one of these pollution alerts, it was recommended that one not let one's children play outside at all, and especially not let them do much exercise outdoors. Every time there was a pollution alert there, some elderly or people with frail health or respiratory problems would die, often dropping dead while trying to walk down the street.
Here is another link about a climate change exacerbated disease. It is chronic kidney failure caused when people do hard work in the heat due to climate change and do not drink enough water. It was discovered in San Salvador South America. After that it was found that the disease was killing people all over the Caribbean and Central America. Then it was discovered to be occurring all around the world. Here is the link:
Climate change is turning dehydration into a deadly disease
It is about time for people to face up to what our waste products are doing to us now, and how much worse it will become in the near future.
I was planning to use this blog post to talk about what is happening in the Antarctic, but got distracted by the new diseases that I had not yet known about that are caused or made worse by climate change.
Here is an article about how what goes on in Antarctica will affect all of us:
This is how far seas could rise thanks to climate change
This article is milder than a lot I have seen. One of those mentioned that a complete meltdown of the Antarctic, Arctic and glaciers along with Greenland will displace half of the human race. Right now we are pretty sure to have 25% of the human race displaced by ocean rise due to climate change. So many people displaced all at once has never happened in history. Much smaller migrations have caused huge upheavals including wars. 25% of the human race being forced to flee for their lives or drown is going to be very hard to deal with. Doubling that is hard to even comprehend.
I have been studying climate change and other results of human activity on the Earth and its systems that we depend on to keep us healthy and alive, for over 40 years, but keep running across new stuff. Studying this for so long has given me a certain immunity to shock over it all. That immunity is not bullet-proof and I am sometimes unpleasantly jolted by new information anyway. I feel badly about the strong shock that people experience when they are very new to this kind of information. I suggest you look again at some of my ideas for solutions to our climate change problems, if you feel very discouraged.
Having you get discouraged so you feel like giving up is the last thing I want from sharing this information with you. That is why I put solutions first, before I got into explaining much about the problems and how bad they are. We do not need to give up. We have solutions.
