12.9 Climate Change

1.    What do you personally find most troubling about climate change?

The aspect I find most troubling about climate change is that there are people in our world who still don’t believe that is happening. Because of this disbelief governing bodies are not taking proper enough actions in order to fully enact change that will help our worlds pristine environments. 

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

As a public health professional, I think awareness and acknowledgement about climate change by our governing bodies is what is needed as the greatest attention right now. By not being aware or acknowledging what is really happening under our feet, in our water, and in our air, it is creating major barriors to any sort of corrective action. If our governing bodies all were on the same page about climate change, proper actions could and would be taken. 

3.    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?

If I was visiting a long-lost relative who had never heard about climate change, the first thing I would say to describe climate change is that our earth and our environment is like a human body. If we get too hot or too cold, our systems start changing for the worse and everyday functions would become harder. If we take care of our body (our earth), we are providing it with the resources it needs to live on its own and thrive.