Week Post Two: Impact on Humans

The ice caps are melting, the temperatures are rising, and humans are dying? Yes it’s true. Researchers say that 150,000 deaths every year are from global warming and they say that the deaths will double by 2030 even if people will try to reduce the amount of emissions being released. Because the weather is getting warmer everywhere, disease infected insects start to move upwards, or migrate, to the north. These bugs will cause some diseases and plagues to spread. Other factors like heat waves and strokes, smog, heart attacks, mold and ragweed that lead to allergies and asthma, and the spread of other various diseases are caused by global warming and can make humans die.

I believe people really should try in some way to help out in the environment. Sure many stores are offering those cloth-like reusable bags for people to buy, but it's up to the shoppers to actually follow through and actually use them in place of the plastic bags. Before doing this blog, I never knew that global warming posed this big of a threat to humans. I knew that it really affected the environment and if we don't stop it, we'll die because of the way it's affecting the environment. But then again, everyone learns something new everyday. But we, as a whole, have to do something to prevent further global warming because if saving the environment isn't a good enough reason, then saving yourself should be.