Climate Change Is Already Impacting Our Health
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2024
- Massive storms, flooding, extreme heat, droughts, air pollution, increased rates of disease, changes to our food and water… global warming, and the changes to climate that come with it, are increasing human health risks. Our physical and mental health both stand to suffer, and some populations are more vulnerable than others. What are the specific health issues, what can we do to address them, and most importantly - is there any hope?
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Dr. Carroll does a good job of highlighting some of the major effects climate change is already having on health. There are definitely more cases of direct effects of increased temperatures - just look at the heatwaves from summer 2022, which broke heat records and resulted in thousands of deaths. But there are so many effects down the line that are potentially even more dangerous. Mosquitos have increased rates of reproduction with every degree that the earth increases, and they spread further than ever before. Air pollution causes millions of deaths annually. The healthcare system is going to have a difficult time keeping up with all of these effects, just due to sheer volume. It’s going to be more difficult for healthcare workers to maintain ethical justice. Medical justice is the fair and equitable distribution of health resources. As Dr. Carroll mentioned, there are already many people without the means to compensate for the complications arising due to climate change. The systems in place currently violate this ethical principle as low resource countries are hit harder by climate disasters. It is the duty of healthcare professionals to treat everyone fairly regardless of their background or ability to pay, but as resources dwindle with climate change, how can fair distribution of care be maintained? This is something that we have to address as these issues only worsen.
I didn’t know that a licensed doctor badge existed in CZcams? Very nice
Seems to have rolled out as of a few videos ago.
I'm curious if these titles are provided to all licensed doctors particularly if they have different ideological options, if not, then the title is irrelevant 🤔
@@DagoRuiz no one asked
@@joshuahere5097 someone should
@@DagoRuizthat’s a great point
I'm really interested in this topic, but I'm having trouble hearing Aaron with the sound level being so quiet. I'll come back in a day or two and they'll probably have updated the video with better sound.
Propaganda. Methane (CH4) is only 0.00019% (1.9 parts per million) of the atmosphere. Both of its narrow absorption bands occur at wavelengths where H2O is already absorbing substantially. Hence, any radiation that CH4 might absorb has already been absorbed by H2O. With the concentration of water vapour in the atmosphere being between 1,000 and 20,000 times greater than CH4, the effects of CH4 are completely masked by H2O.
The volume's surprisingly low. Also, I feel like "housing" was supposed to follow the word affordable in the comment about the current disparities we face? Likely just a script oversight.
3:48 I love that dress/top, what do you call an item of clothing like that?
Google simple indian dress wear; kurti..m
I was hoping you guys would cover this intersection of climate change/crisis and health, thank you!!
And Now for Something Completely Different. - Monty Python
The animals that carry Leishmaniasis are finally able to live in my area of the U.S. we started having our first cases of the disease in 2012. Thanks climate change!
Almost all of the cases of leishmaniasis diagnosed in the United States are in people who became infected while traveling or living in other countries.
While the significant, sometimes cataclysmic, impacts and consequences of climate change are frequently mentioned during any discussion of the topic, i.e. rising sea levels swallowing coastal towns, methane gases obliterating our ozone layer, I find it refreshing to come across a video that relays the day-to-day daily impacts that these changes have on all of us, some of us with even greater significance. This is not to diminish the very real threat of long-term climate impacts, but that a degrading and detrimental environment to the human ecosystem can absolutely hasten these consequences! That aside, the implications of climate change already have very real effects on some of the most common health issues we face as a society. Respiratory syndromes across the board, with specific emphasis on conditions such as asthma and other constrictive airway diseases, can be exponentially worsened in populations that are subject to daily air pollutants. With an ever increasing global temperature, air pollutants tend to take longer to dissipitate and the vicious cycle continues. And this is just one example of very common place health concerns being affected by climate change. The less that is done to combat it, the more likely that moderately controlled health issues may become ever more pervasive.
We’ve had solar panels on our roof for several years.
Great to see you covering this!
This individual cares about our species but has not addressed that the economic mode: market capitalism, is indeed the actual problem. It should be understood by individuals that systems change is a transition we can no longer keep avoiding. If effective policy and legislation pushed by "moral and caring politicians" were enough then why are countries failing to meet the Paris Agreement, failing to reduce dependency on hydrocarbons. Hence increased investment in hydrocarbon, and its applications. Hence why we as a civilisation are on track for 1.5 degrees of warming AND MORE HORROR. Reduction in hydrocarbon use and a transition to cheaper renewable energy systems, and increased automation and by that abundance, would simply reduce the need for these false positions: monarchs, politician, and all businessmen, and high risk labour, and reduce the work a day week. Something our dear oligarchs are afraid of. Loss of power.
It should be known that class stratification and the resulting divide of the "have and have nots" produces unequal income, increased conflict, and produces all manner of epidemiological problems by country. We the people must actively protest for out systems change, not in systems change. The aristocratic and technocratic class will not give up their reward feedback loop, and will not reduce the conditional reinforcers that reward their operation and position. Therefore by default this video isn't for those who can acquire enough income, and agency to improve their worth to exist because our system makes people sick. They cannot reinvigorate their physical and mental health.
We have to be able to challenge the validity of the systems we live, and whether its producing viable outcomes.
see: www.oxfam.org/en/what-we-do/issues/extreme-inequality-and-essential-services
see: Failing to meet Paris Agreement: news.un.org/en/story/2022/10/1129892
see: now.tufts.edu/2017/10/12/mathematics-inequality
see: Stafford Beer, The Will of the People: czcams.com/video/2ybjOw6UJ8A/video.html
see: equalitytrust.org.uk/resources/the-spirit-level
see: Peter Joseph, Viable Systems: czcams.com/video/8RSZMVxfv38/video.html
We can take the CZcams video on its merits. This individual clearly cares but his suggestions on who or how some help or change occurs are for an audience who have the income and agency, and is in systems ideas, which at best produce patch work and catharsis. The systems demographic, by default, is for those who have the money to improve. He can only suggest some ideas, or ways to help but you cannot do that without money. Therefore the 3.4 billion members of humanity who struggle to meet their basic needs will never be able to take this advice. The kind of change required must be at the system level, and by improvement I mean transition into a more viable system.
Thank you for rising awareness about this!
Fossil fuels and the prosperity it brings to industrialized societies have led to much better health outcomes. As we move to greener energy we must remember that prosperity is what brings the greatest health outcomes.
Shove off, right winger.
@@jaykanta4326 fantastic rebuttal
This is a perspective that I hadn't really considered until I read your comment. Pre-industrial societies certainly had worse health and less access to healthcare. Fossil fuels drove (and continue to drive) virtually every industry in the world. Without them, we wouldn't have trains or planes or trucks and society as we know it would look very different. Medicine certainly would not be as advanced as it currently is. However, simply because something is a useful tool does not mean that there aren't better tools. We have the prosperity of modern day due to horse-drawn plows and steam boats. But better, more efficient technologies always replace old ones. Fossil fuels have been a world changing technology that catapulted us to our current state, and in that way are indirectly responsible for saving many lives. But cleaner, greener energy sources are becoming more and more viable, and eventually fossil fuel will be phased out. This will not undo or reverse the progress made by fossil fuels. The opposite, in fact, will be true. We will advance even further as a society and healthcare outcomes will only continue to get better and better. With the added bonus of reduced carbon emissions that will lead to improvements in climate change that will synergistically improve the health of every living creature on the planet.
Glad to see you discussing this issue, though I would have preferred a bit longer of a video, including more on the solutions. Also, I feel like this video is more than a bit late, one would have hoped to have seen this sort of thing after over 200 medical journals made an emergency call to action for medical professionals in September 2021.
Hi! We've got several videos on this topic coming your way, with this one serving as a kind of intro/overview. Stay tuned! :) -Tiffany
@@healthcaretriageI imagine this series will be very lucrative. Congrats on the additional funding.
Propaganda. There are over 5 million excess deaths per annum globally due to abnormal temperatures from the 2000-2019 study led Prof. Guo of Monash University. It found that over 90% of excess deaths were caused by excess COLD rather than excess heat. This applied globally including in the hottest continent, Africa. So, in a world with increasingly mild temperatures, there will be less excess death. Warming is good not bad.
Volume way, way too quiet. You guys need a real sound engineer.
Facts hurt.
Propaganda. Between 1961 and 2021 cereal production increased 250% and cereal yield increased over 200%. Land used for cereal hardly increased (Data from World Bank, FAO/UN). This is the only time in human history that you are more likely to be overfed rather than underfed. We should be thankful we were borne into an age of such abundance.
May the Anthroprocene epoch make the Permian-Triassic extinction event seem like a minor footnote in the pages of Earth's history. Here's to making scenario SSP5-8.5 of the IPCC assessment a reality.
Stoking fear by telling lies. Hmmmmm. Not good.
Sadly there are a lot of people who refuse to consider that climate change is real and we need to do something about it. They'd rather keep driving their pollution spewing cars without concern, consuming without a care - all while being told by businesses with a vested interest in not being help accountable for the harm they're causing to the environment.
Not only do cars pollute, we're also seeing a series of other issues arise from Car-Dependency and Urban Sprawl like Isolation/Social Disconnects, Traffic Problems, Obesity, and overall affordability. US needs to change their infrastructure.
Yes let's pretend it's Shell's fault and there is nothing we can do and then continue to buy petrol products that support Shell and other oil companies
and then theres people like me, who contribute to climate change on purpose because i hate people so goddamn much.
@charlespentrose7834 Sadly there are a lot of people who refuse to consider that climate change has always been real and never static, we need to do something about it. They'd rather conflate pollution and anthropogenic global warming than educate themselves on the topic, consuming soy without a care - all while being told by fascist corporations with vested interests to hold the other businesses accountable for the harm they're causing to our sanity.
Climate change is not affecting my health
Yay! We’re all gonna die 😭🤔😥
Not one mention about the Ohio chemical spill…unreal
Shakes his head!
Or aglets. Why does he not mention topics that are unrelated? OUTRAGED!
is this why I feel like crap all the time lol
Even this video has attracted nay sayers who can’t be convinced by the data.
Strange. Why watch a video about something you don’t believe anyway?
What about the Ohio train derailment?
@@johnnyb7628
Do try to stay on topic lil' Johnny.
@@hosnimubarak8869 NOPE, let's talk about it here, right now
. Why isn't your buddy Biden doing anything? Does he hate the people in Ohio? ANSWER MY QUESTION. Honestly I would respect yall alot more if you just said yes we do hate you.
@@johnnyb7628
My buddy Biden??? I 'm Canadian.
@@hosnimubarak8869 Trudeau, Biden, Same thing.
Propaganda. Heatwaves were much more severe in the 1930s.
The world is at 1.1 Deg C and the IPPC say it could be 1.5 by 2030. Its already getting bad at 1.1 deg.
Pretty sure at the current rate, we will surpass 1.5 by 2030.
The solution to 'climate change' is nuclear energy and increasing economic development in poorer countries. It's not forcibly cutting CO2 emissions and relying on poor energy sources like solar/wind and giving governments tremendous power over the people.
There is no one solution. We need a lot of different solutions. Some include: Cutting emissions from industry, building sector, transport and farming, stop destroying wild habitats, restore and create new habitats for nature, cut down our consumption, retrofitting old buildings and new ones to make them more energy and heat efficient, moving to circular economies, cutting our use of plastic, we need to have more technology be able to be repaired when damaged and reusing components rather than throwing them away when they are old/broken, moving away from fossil fuels to clean energy and more. Nuclear power isn't exactly a right solution either when you have drawbacks like radiation, nuclear waste, the land area needed to build a nuclear plant, impact on the environment to get the nuclear materials needed, potentials for an accident/meltdown and so on.
Another big issue is governments not doing enough to sop much of out damaging practises like mining, urban sprawl, habitat destruction and so on and in some cases even allowing it to happen and there are climate agreements from the Paris climate agreement not being met. Our current economy model doesn't work if we want a planet that is more the way it should be naturally, rather than humans having a big impact on the Earth globally.
Well nuclear energy is really expensive. So until we can profit from mining asteroids, we can't just heavily rely on nuclear energy... solar, wind, nuclear, carbon capture, more efficient products with lower CO2 emmision, lifestyle changes, not creating countless yachts and other stupidly expensive shit only bilionares and certain milionares can afford - we need to utilize all these solutions and more to stop climate change... there's no end all be all solution #teameverything
Nuclear energy isnt renewable
The most confusing part of what you said is the part about freedom and government control? Nuclear is extremely centralized and under government control while wind and solar are both things you can set up on your own to live of the grid
Oh, cutting our CO2 output is absolutely essential in all of this. Primarily from our constantly running, highly energy intensive commercial industries. Nuclear is an excellent way to do that being quite easy to implement in different areas relatively independent of local resources such as solar, wind, and geothermal capacities, helping to meet baseload power needs everywhere. That said, I also greatly encourage the implementation of geothermal, solar thermal, and wind turbines where applicable as well as the widespread adoption of photovoltaics. Indeed, that last one has demonstrates considerable potential given they can be installed nearly anywhere as well without issue and grow in efficiency. Not to mention fixing up our current infrastructure, especially long distance power lines to better redirect power and offer support in trying times. These systems are decades out of date and need not just basic maintenance but to be better equipped to deal with modern demands in a world of more extreme conditions.
There are of course other things worth encouraging. Environmental protections and land stewardship is chief among them, especially with Native input and leadership, be they federally recognized or not, as some of the most experienced people in this area. I'd also say non-commercial projects as simple as switching to LED lights for use in public works, better insulating people's homes, encouraging off peak energy consumption, cooling urban centers with shade, reducing the amount of heat retained by different surfaces, and similar such projects in and out of cities, improving food security, and various others as well. You know, real things that help real people.
None of these placating gestures of carbon credits promising that something overall good will eventually happen that just never materializes. We need good now and good later as best we can, not permission slips to do bad now but maybe do some good sometime later promises.
Title correction: "Alarmism is already impacting our health."
I wonder what your sources are? Last time I checked IPCC's report, the conclusion was that if there is any trend at all in extreme weather, it’s downward rather than upward.
Sad, he's repeating what he's heard in Media.
The hurricanes in Florida last year, in Puerto Rica a few years ago, more, are all do to?
"Climate Change" per reporters like Jake Tapper on CNN, a former news outlet.
What are you talking about? That's not true. Here is a direct quote from the IPCC report released in 2022: *"Human-induced climate change, including more frequent and intense extreme events, has caused widespread adverse impacts and related losses and damages to nature and people, beyond natural climate variability. Some development and adaptation efforts have reduced vulnerability. Across sectors and regions the most vulnerable people and systems are observed to be disproportionately affected. The rise in weather and climate extremes has led to some irreversible impacts as natural and human systems are pushed beyond their ability to adapt. (high confidence)"* That comes from page 9 of their Summary for Policymakers.
@@bidaubadeadieu
A New York City hooker on 11ave and 33rd street has more credibility than the IPCC, or UN.
...forget how I know the location of the working girls :) Hope I didn't misgender them.
Your source on that source is wrong as the other guy pointed out by quoting the source you claim to reference.
Nice lie, right winger.
And no mention of the Ohio train derailment. Hypocrites.
Try to keep up.
He didn't mention recent polio deaths either. I am outraged.
@@scottekoontz Ohio incident happened a few days ago. Try again.
@@scottekoontz Your comment proves you don't care. I guess it's true, you hate those people in East Palestine.
@@johnnyb7628
Health risks from AGW are different from health risks from careless workers and/or careless companies and/or rollbacks of safety mandates. Try again... and again if you need to. Did you cry when this accident was not mentioned in a recent talk about chess too? How about databases? Should the Ohio derailment come up in my discussions on database efficiency?