Climatic change and Common good

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Climatic change and Common good
It is a scientific fact that climate is one of the primary factors affecting human health and
wellbeing. Common good can be defined as some actions that is beneficial to all. According to
Brulle et al., (2012), climate is a common global good that belongs to all and at the global level
the climate is a complex system that is associated to many essential conditions of life. Changes
in climate or climate variables affects several factors such as air, food, water shelter and these in
combination with other human made stressors affects the health and wellbeing of people around
in several ways. Making a sustainable development environment by helping the common people
to cope up with the climatic change or adopting measures to keep a pollution free environment is
a part of common good. Besides healthcare implications, climatic change also affects others
aspects affecting the social structure, such as disrupting the legal, educational, ethical and
economic aspect of healthcare. As per the Australian Government Department of the
Environment and Energy (2018), the effect of climate change can affects coasts, cities, water and
natural resources, natural ecosystem, affects the disaster management ability of the country and
economy as a whole as the government has to invest more resources to combat the aftermaths of
climate change. Some of the common good related to this issue involves the climatic mitigation
such as the reduction of the worldwide carbon dioxide emission without delay, reduction of the
air pollutant setting up of sustainable developmental goals.
Challenges with realizing aspirations of the common good in relation to climatic change
Economic aspect of climate change is associated with market impact and non-market
impact. As majority of the countries suffering from climate change are developing countries, as
per Hanewinkel et al. (2013), negative impact of climate change will affect the economy by

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creating severe health impacts which will increase the substantial cost of healthcare in those
countries. On the other hand, Wheeler and Von Braun (2013) mentions the market section
implication in which the agriculture, fisheries, livestock, forestry and others are being affected in
both developed and developing countries. Due to the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere the
negative impacts are faced by the agricultural ventures and the total impact across all the regions
affect the economy (Stern, 2013).
On the other hand, education system of countries are also being affected due to the
climate changes as countries have to shift their focus from educational requirement of the
population to the sustainability of the country (Brulle, Carmichael & Jenkins, 2012). Further, it is
also seen in the literatures that increased temperature and changed patterns of rainfall is one of
the primary reasons due to which educational system gets affected and accessibility to health
becomes difficult to achieve (Bellard et al., 2012). The accessibility to education is indirectly
connected to changed climate as due to climate change, agriculture and other productions are
affected which decreases the income of a household, further due to this individual household as
well as the community characteristics are changed (Arent et al., 2015). This intern changes the
macro-economic conditions, political status and governmental programs. Therefore, education is
the aspect, which gets affected due to the climate change and puts negative impact on societies,
communities and generations (Brulle, Carmichael & Jenkins, 2012).
Global context of climatic change
The severe effects of the climatic change are affecting billions of people worldwide.
Institutional reforms, policy changes and the technological innovations for the for the affordable
access to zero carbo energy sources. It should be noticed that there are several legal regulations