Impact of Climate Change on Human Activities and Health

This research essay explores the extent of climate change and its impact on human activities and health. It discusses the causes and effects of climate change, including global warming, greenhouse gases, and extreme weather events. The essay also highlights the importance of reducing greenhouse emissions and creating green communities for positive climate changes.

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What extent of climate change has result on human activities?
Climate change is defined as long-term changes in temperature and this causes
natural disaster and directly creates negative impact on environment. Climate changes
create huge impact on human activities because when natural aspects of
environment change then it has direct impact on daily life of individuals (Breitburg and
et. al., 2018). Climate change is considered as the change in conditions of
environment on the earth and this could be the result of external or different internal
factors. Climate change is one of the major global concerns over the past decades in
which the earth faces different issues in various ways.
The thesis statement of the current essay is “Impact of climate change over human
activities and health”. The major reason of collecting information about the climate
change is that it is disturbing the manner individuals lead their life (Xue and et. al.,
2021). The purpose of this report is to highlight the outcome of climate change on the
human activities and health. The information is assembled with the assistance of
secondary sources which are articles and journals.
One of the major issues of climate change is global warming, many experts
have said that due to climate change global warming is increasing and this results in a
negative impact on the environment and the earth (Huang and et. al., 2020). One of
the major drivers of climate change is the greenhouse effect as a sum of the gases
over the Earth's atmosphere. They are acting like glass in a Greenhouse and as a
result CO2 production has increased by different human activities. The reasons of
climate change are related with burning coals, cutting down forest increasing livestock
farming, fertilizers containing nitrogen and fluorinated gases. Another effect of climate
change is change in temperature due to extra pollution. Individuals are using fossil
fuels and scarce resources in full manner for making their lives easy and convenient.
This results into negative impact on the environment (Halpern and et. al., 2019). This
has been analysed that the impact of climate change over the human is large because
humans and their activities are dependent on each other. Due to climate change,
mountain glaciers are shrinking and this way individuals are not able to enjoy scenic
beauty and at the same time long term survival on earth is also decreased. Human
activities create greenhouse gases which increases overall temperature of the earth

and the combined effect is seen on the earth and human. Nitrogen oxide is also
emitted by human activities because in fertilisers different elements are used and they
produce nitrogen oxide in the soil. The contribution of radioactive elements is also high
in the environment as different human activities are there which absorb high carbon
dioxide and negative change reactive elements are created for the earth. Human
activities also result in high industrial waste and this mismanages the balance of earth
radiative. By putting tons of carbon into the atmosphere fossil fuels are burned and this
results in higher deforestation in which the temperature of the globe is increasing.
As per the opinion of Shi and et. al., (2021), it is the understood that the implications of
climate change include disturbance in precipitation, rising levels of sea, warning
temperatures and intensity of extreme weather conditions. These are some impacts
which threaten health of the people by affecting the way and what food they eat, the air
they breathe, the weather they experience and the water they drink. Warmer average
temperatures create hot days and also create waves which are very hot. These are the
changes which directly lead to death and these deaths are generally caused by the hot
waves. People who are more exposed to heat lead to dehydration and heat stroke as
well as respiratory and cardiovascular problems and diseases.
Smith and et. al. (2016) stated that the climate change is defined as the changing
patterns of the climate in long term shifts. Earlier, these are the changes which were
considered natural but nowadays because of the human activities like burning of fossil
fuels such as coal and oil along which produce harmful gas and trap the heat in a
negative manner. Moreover, due to the pollution and consumption of air conditioner,
the ozone layer has faced a hole in it which is the reason behind high fluctuations in
the climatic conditions. There are various effects of climate change such as frequent
and intense drought along with the storms and heat waves which is followed by the
rising sea levels and melting glaciers and also the warming oceans. These are the
effects which directly or indirectly can harm the animals as well as the human beings
also. They can also damage the places of people where they live. Therefore,
temperature fluctuations are also due to the irregular rain which results in humidity.
Climate change generally brings many changes in the working pattern of people and
this creates many problems in their lives. The change in climate is rapidly increasing

with time because of the human activities that is taking place in the normal routine of
life and this is making the lifestyle of people devastating. This has brought changes in
the average temperature and weather patterns of the globe which affects the normal
life of humans. With the on-going human activities, they are releasing a large amount
carbon dioxide and different types of other greenhouse gases which changes the
normal climate of the earth. Climate change generally includes ice cores, glacier
lengths, tree rings, heat waves which is increasing due the unhealthy habits and
behaviour of the humans (Song and et. al., 2018). Greenhouse gases have a major
impact on the earth resources mainly because of the human activities. There are
different types of activities of human which affect the climatic conditions of the earth
such as agriculture, deforestation and road construction which generally leads to
global warming and cooling. As trees are an important source of breathing and directly
improves the quality of air but because of increasing deforestation has raised the
temperature of the earth and due to which the global warming has also increased. The
change in the climate is considered as the major problem for the earth. It is important
to cope with the changing situations and damage by changing the behaviour and living
style of people. For reducing the impact of human influence on the climatic changes it
is necessary for humans to improve the conditions of the climate by reducing the
effects of the green house emission gases. It is important for the humans to control
harsh activities globally and plant more trees for better sustainability.
On the other hand, (Omer and et. al. (2020) climate changes directly impact the
air people breathe both outdoors and indoors. Shift in weather patterns decreases
quality of air. When quality of the air decreases or worsens, it leads health effects such
as respiratory and asthma attacks. Extreme weather events directly impact human
activities in several ways such decreasing the availability of safe drinking water and
food, damaging bridges & roads which directly disrupt the access to pharmacies and
hospitals, disturbing communication and so on. Therefore, weather and climate
changes have direct impact over human activities because it disturbs the living
patterns and creates more uncertainties in leading their life.
Climate change is creating a great impact on human activities as their health
and livelihoods is getting damaged. It has become difficult to survive in the

environment. It is also affecting the whole world which causes storms, drought and
flood. It is important to focus on creating green communities as the negative
environment destroys the surroundings and environment (Mahmoud and Gan, 2018).
Human activities such as consumption of fossil fuel are changing the climate system.
The other reason for alerting the climate is changes in land use and land cover such as
urbanization, deforestation and shift in vegetarian pattern. It is important for humans to
focus on reducing greenhouse emission so that positive climate changes occur. One of
the primary causes of global climate is human (Jia and et. al., 2019). Thus, it is
important to identify the solution and reduce the causes of climate change. Human
activities such as burning fossil fuels is one of the reasons of climate change which
leads to increases in the level of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere which affects human health. The greenhouses gases generally turn into
amplify the natural greenhouse effect which affects the temperature of Earth’s
atmosphere and land surfaces to increase.

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