Climate change is not the greatest threat in human history debate. Please help!!!
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Explanation:
Climate change is a symptom. The biggest threat is HUMANS. There are too many of us, we are too destructive and too consumptive. We care most about comfort, convenience and shiny objects, while those goals are both bad for human health and bad for the planet.
Even in the anthropocentric view that humans are the the only factor of importance, the whole rest of the ecosphere consists of human EXO-METABOLISM, recycling human wastes into Oxygen, clean water and healthy food necessary to sustain humans. This means that the limits to bio-productivity and bio-diversity are the only true measure of wealth. Without air, water and food nothing else matters.
We have destroyed roughly 3/4 of the one and only biosphere on which we are 100% dependent, and what is left can’t sustainably support 7 billion of us. Half of all humans today were grown on chemical fertilizer, and even if nothing else nosedives (pollinators, runaway warming, ocean chemistry) we are irrevocably facing a fertilizer crisis in a few decades as the known reserves of economical phosphate and potash ore run out.
Climate change is a long-term change in temperature and typical weather patterns in one place.
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- Contaminated air and steadily rising temperatures are associated with health effects ranging from increased heart attacks and strokes to the spread of infections and trauma.
- People around the world are directly experiencing the potential for catastrophic impacts on the planet.
- With ever-increasing average temperatures, more severe forest fires, hurricanes and other catastrophes have occurred and cannot be ignored today.
- And as the world plunges into a deadly pandemic, scientists warn that climate change remains the greatest threat to human health in history.