How Climate Change Might Cause Another World-Wide Pandemic
When people think of climate change and the impacts it has on the natural world, they usually go straight to the dramatic extinction rate that has gone up tremendously because of human activity. The loss of species that appear to be unimportant has shown itself to not only have a vast impact on ecosystems, but a just as significant one on other factors of our everyday life. For example, the elimination of apex animals is a case in point where one can see how great the influence of losing an entire kind is. According to Renee Cho, staff blogger for the Earth Institute of Columbia University, the loss of this type of animal could increase “pandemics, fires, the decline of valued species and the rise of invasive ones, the reduction of ecosystem services, and decreased carbon sequestration”, demonstrating how the extinction of any being can cause dramatic domino-effects that harm humans and all-living things. To sum up, pressuring enormous organizations that abuse biological systems while leading with the impacts mentioned before is crucial to the endurance of everything on Earth. If this behavior is allowed to proceed, we will all have to face the incredibly destructive and negatively amplified consequences. — Gina Horner
Written by: Youth Climate Action Team Inc.
