Climate Change

What do you personally find most troubling about climate change? 

I personally feel that there is no less critical problem related to climate change. To me every outcome of climate change is vital. However, I would consider the improportional impact on vulnerable populations as the most pressing. After reviewing the module materials, video lectures and the readings I arrived at a conclusion that all outcomes of climate change multiply when it comes to vulnerable populations. 

As a public health professional, what do you think needs the greatest attention right now?

I believe that we do need to address disparities and discrimination issues right away. Doing that and decreasing inequalities and discrimination will put this world on another higher level. Of evolution. I may sound somewhat idealistic, romantic and abstract. But we are definitely capable of making changes, and that would dramatically increase our chances of surviving and growing healthier and more ethical (moral) generations. Regarding climate change, it will help with disaster preparedness and epidemiological outcomes. 

If you were visiting with a long-lost relative who had never heard about climate change, how would you describe it and its attendant human health and ecological threats?

I would describe climate change as global warming. Global warming in its turn is the increase of the average temperature all over the Planet. This increase negatively affects all living organisms and inanimate things. Moreover, climate change leads to changes in water (a decrease in water resources, expansion of water diseases), increase in natural disasters occurrence, deaths and extinctions of animals, negative impact on plants and crops, increase in human infection and on-infection diseases and air pollution.  Overall, climate change is one of the most pressing ecological issues, which impacts almost everything you can imagine. Additionally, the fact that humans and human actions are the primary cause of global warming and its outcomes is quite frustrating! I believe that there's something here all of us should think about.