Throughout history, global warming has been perceived by political leaders as a natural issue in the environment rather than a humanitarian issue. As this is an issue that affects the entire human population and not solely politicians, it is only correct to investigate the detrimental and less damaging factors that global warming has on the population. Articles from Thilaka Ravi’s “Global Warming Will Likely Cause Serious Human Health Effects,” Carlos F. Corvalan and Jonathan A. Patz’s “Global warming kills trees, and people,” and Ichiro Kurane’s “The Effect of Global Warming on Infectious Diseases,” make specific arguments on what exactly global warming will do to a human’s health, most viably infectious diseases, heat strokes, and mortality.
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With these credentials Kurane states that “The effect of global warming on human health is divided into two categories: direct effect on the illness such as heat shock and increased mortality in population with other diseases and indirect effect on diseases such as infectious diseases and allergy.” Despite the effectiveness of his statement on how global warming both directly and indirectly affects human health, Thilaka Ravi unconsciously agrees with Kurane’s statement while consequently adding another layer of explanation that Kurane’s article lacked. Ravi begins to discuss the ideology that soon global warming will have the potential to increase the chances of malnutrition and heat strokes. She consistently states throughout the article how if the extreme temperatures continue to rise, the chance of heat strokes will heighten immensely in the young and old resulting in death. “Studies based on earlier heat wave events predict a 145% increase in deaths in New York,” (Ravi). Both authors find correlations between heat waves and infectious diseases in today’s global …show more content…
Corvalan and Jonathan A. Patz conversely agree with Ravi in stating that “In 2003 an unprecedented heatwave hit France, causing more than 14,800 excess deaths and representing a 60% increase in expected mortality.” Nevertheless, these two statistics bring to light the ideology of how heat waves are directly impacted by global warming. These statistics are insightful by the simplistic fact that Kurane does not openly state statistics of this caliber. Kurane is seen to be a prosperous virologist, while inconsistently being unknowingly viable to the idea of how heat waves are correlated to global warming. This small statement brings up the question of why there is a constant focus on solely weather conditions rather than health conditions caused by the same environmental factors. Nonetheless, all three authors bring out intriguing points on the discovery of what causes heat waves and their extremities. To state this another way, the heat in the air caused by global warming will eventually bring genuine destruction to the
With these credentials Kurane states that “The effect of global warming on human health is divided into two categories: direct effect on the illness such as heat shock and increased mortality in population with other diseases and indirect effect on diseases such as infectious diseases and allergy.” Despite the effectiveness of his statement on how global warming both directly and indirectly affects human health, Thilaka Ravi unconsciously agrees with Kurane’s statement while consequently adding another layer of explanation that Kurane’s article lacked. Ravi begins to discuss the ideology that soon global warming will have the potential to increase the chances of malnutrition and heat strokes. She consistently states throughout the article how if the extreme temperatures continue to rise, the chance of heat strokes will heighten immensely in the young and old resulting in death. “Studies based on earlier heat wave events predict a 145% increase in deaths in New York,” (Ravi). Both authors find correlations between heat waves and infectious diseases in today’s global …show more content…
Corvalan and Jonathan A. Patz conversely agree with Ravi in stating that “In 2003 an unprecedented heatwave hit France, causing more than 14,800 excess deaths and representing a 60% increase in expected mortality.” Nevertheless, these two statistics bring to light the ideology of how heat waves are directly impacted by global warming. These statistics are insightful by the simplistic fact that Kurane does not openly state statistics of this caliber. Kurane is seen to be a prosperous virologist, while inconsistently being unknowingly viable to the idea of how heat waves are correlated to global warming. This small statement brings up the question of why there is a constant focus on solely weather conditions rather than health conditions caused by the same environmental factors. Nonetheless, all three authors bring out intriguing points on the discovery of what causes heat waves and their extremities. To state this another way, the heat in the air caused by global warming will eventually bring genuine destruction to the