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Warming Hearts: Humanitarian Approach in Addressing Global Warming
Warming Hearts: Humanitarian Approach in Addressing Global Warming
❝ WHO ARE WE? ❞
RLE Group D15, student nurses ready to serve, we feel a connection to others and to the world around us, especially as an aspiring health care professional. This lead us to consider the human and environmental impacts of global warming. As we believe, it's not just an environmental issue, but a humanitarian one as well.
Global warming is still relevant due to human activities, which poses significant environmental and health risks. The causes, including power generation, manufacturing, deforestation, transportation, building energy use, and overconsumption, result in greenhouse gas emissions. These emissions contribute to various effects such as increased pest outbreaks, habitat disruption leading to species extinction, and heightened health risks like asthma and infectious diseases, including malaria. Vulnerable groups, such as children and the elderly, are particularly at risk. In the Philippines, we're already feeling the effects, from changing rainfall to rising sea levels.
Hence, our group is motivated to take action and be an advocate not only for the sake of our planet but also for the well-being of the people.
WARMING HEARTS: Advocacy Goal
"Promoting the advancement of sustainable climate change."
❝ STATISTICS ❞
The Philippines is the third most vulnerable country to climate change according to the 2017 world risk report. Impacts of climate change in the Philippines are immense, including: annual losses in GDP, changes in rainfall patterns and distribution, droughts, threats to biodiversity and food security, sea level rise, public health risks, and endangerment of vulnerable groups such as women and indigenous people. A 2011 PAGASA report suggests a decrease in rainfall by 2020 in most parts of the country except Luzon. As far as extreme rainfall is concerned, however, the number of days with heavy rainfall (e.g., greater than 200 mm) is expected to increase with global warming by the year 2020 and 2050.
CORAL LOSS
CORAL LOSS
The 2016 Low Carbon Monitor Report foresees that 98 percent of coral reefs in Southeast Asia will die by 2050, practically an extinction by the end of the century if current global warming trends continue. The IPCC projects that by the years 2051 to 2060, the maximum fish catch potential of Philippine seas will decrease by as much as 50% compared to 2001-2010 levels.
HIGHER SEA LEVEL
HIGHER SEA LEVEL
Observed sea level rise is remarkably highest at 60 centimeters in the Philippines, about three times that of the global average of 19 centimeters. This puts at risk 60% of LGUs covering 64 coastal provinces, 822 coastal municipalities, 25 major coastal cities, and an estimated 13.6 million Filipinos that would need relocation.
WATER SCARCITY
WATER SCARCITY
Climate change, rapid urbanization, and population growth drives water scarcity worldwide. A study conducted by the World Resources Institute predicts that the Philippines will experience a 'high' degree of water shortage by the year 2040. The country ranked 57th likely most water stressed country in 2040 out of 167 countries.
❝ CONTENT ❞
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