Nature itself leads the offensive
The US Environmental Protection Agency has prepared a special report that presents the disappointing consequences of global climate change that is happening right now. Global warming will have truly dramatic consequences for humans, their physical and mental health, including due to the deterioration of the quality of food and a decrease in its nutritional value. As the saying goes, whoever is forewarned is armed … And whoever is armed is not to be warned!
Experts from the US Department of Health and Human Services, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and five other federal agencies participated in the report.
The authors of the report note that with global warming, the quality of food will deteriorate significantly, since an increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will dramatically reduce the nutritional value of such key crops for most countries of the world as wheat and rice. At the same time, higher temperatures and other weather changes can significantly increase the risk of spreading foodborne infections such as salmonella and norovirus.
The experts who prepared the report predict that by 2030, the intense heat in the summer months could lead to the fact that the number of premature deaths in the United States will rise by 11 thousand annually from the 1990 level. By 2100, according to the authors of the document, this difference may already reach 27 thousand.
Global warming, according to experts, will also negatively affect allergy sufferers and asthmatics, as higher temperatures prolong the dusting season, and parallel air pollution can further exacerbate the situation for this category of people.
Climate change also provokes an expansion of the habitat of mosquitoes and ticks, which are carriers of various diseases, as well as an increase in the period of their activity.
Experts also emphasize that the potential consequences of climate change on human mental health cannot be ruled out. Dramatic events such as floods, fires and extreme weather conditions, as a result of which thousands of people lose their property and are forced to relocate, invariably lead to severe stress.
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In general, the well-known question "What is the coming day for us?.." The answer is disappointing - nothing good …