It is not surprising for climate scientists that wildfires, heat waves, floods, droughts and other extreme weather events are becoming more common around the world. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UN agency, warns that such problems may be exacerbated as the world moves up 1.5 ° C above pre-industrial levels over the next 20 years. doing. Not to mention the predictions that the temperature rise will be even greater.
The world is negatively impacting health, nutrition, quality of life, safety, wildlife and many other areas. A few years ago we read about the "future" or "distant" effects of such climate change, but today they are becoming part of our daily lives.
Different social groups in different parts of the world can experience the effects of rising temperatures in different ways. A recent study by the European Trade Union Institute, cited by Euractiv, provides some vivid examples. In the employment sector, different workers are at higher risk of fever than other workers. Think about workers in agriculture, construction, and other outdoor activities. Or a worker involved in a particular type of manufacturing. This study requires authorities to consider heat stress as a professional danger. In another study, quoted by
Euractiv, this time the American Geophysical Union found that low-income earners were exposed to heat waves due to factors such as location and access to air conditioners. The European Environment Agency also argues that the most affected social groups in wealthy countries are those who are already at a disadvantage because of their age, health, or socio-economic status, quoted in the report. I am.
There are various public positions on what to do to address future climate change issues. First and foremost, there is a global consensus sponsored by the IPCC, which represents the building of political compromises and the interaction with scientific evidence. In this complex politics, some say that changes in human behavior are essential to adapt to climate change, while others say that a healthy systematic shift to another sustainable society is needed. There are also people. Some point out the need for technological change to adapt to the changes in the type of social system in which we live, while others deny the situation as it is too late.
I agree that it is important to mainstream sustainable actions on climate change into all policymaking, and that interactions at both the structural and individual levels play an important role. I also agree that political will is important for significant changes, but politics itself is not a "thing" that can be easily shaped from one form to another. Politics is characterized by diverse relationships, interactions, consequences, including unintended ones, and sources of influence.
For example, consider the direct political impact of economic interests against green politics. this
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