Health Concerns Posed by Increases in Global Warming
Health Concerns Posed by Increases in Global Warming
I remember the first time I ever saw and heard about global warming. I was probably in the first or second grade at the time. I was watching the TV and a commercial came on, it was a cartoon with two kids and an adult. They were in the park enjoying the day, when the guy started talking about global warming. The kids didn’t know what he was talking about so he fast forwards time and shows them what the earth is going to be like when they are his age. The future earth is barren and desert like. This was my first encounter with global warming. But after a while the topic got dropped and not until recently have I heard much about global warming. I figured it just wasn’t a big deal anymore, until I looked at this website.
After visiting this website and reading about how global warming can kill so many people and bring so much disease also bugs such as the mosquito can give someone a deadly disease or disease such as malaria, cholera, encephalitis, and dengue fever is something I never knew. To me this is intimidating because to know that the mosquito can kill someone or make him or her extremely sick is very unsettling.
All I used to think of mosquitoes were pests that made you itch. As a kid I used to catch the mosquitoes sucking on my blood and I would pinch the skin around the thing and it wouldn’t be able to get away. I used to try to make them blow up by sucking my blood. Now this thoughtless thing I did was for enjoyment; Now that I know it could kill me made me quiver when I read it. It made me quiver because most people think they are harmless little insects that don’t cause any problems besides being an annoying pest. Now they are able to kill a person, all because of diseases that have been introduced by global warming.
The warm climate we have is the reason why the infectious diseases are being spread. Just knowing that we have signs of west Nile virus around New Hampshire is bad enough, but with the continuing spreading of this and all these diseases means its closer to my back yard. It just makes me wonder when the other diseases...