According to The Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), industrial farming is responsible for the climate change disasters currently confronting Nigeria and the entire planet. The Director of the HOMEF, Nnimmo Bassey, during a stakeholder meeting with Civil Society on Agroecology, that was held in Abuja, stated that agriculture generally has no contribution in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, howbeit, industrial agriculture, due to its dependence on fertilizer, fossil fuel and monoculture contributes to global warming.
In his statement, he gave an explanation that the implementation of indigenous planting materials rather than the employment of artificial methods helps to cool the planet. Through the act of planting crops on a particular land without the use of artificial fertilizers and chemical products, the health of the soil is being protected as a result of the natural means of protection used on the crops. This practice called biodiversity, he noted, is what helps to cool the planet.
Climate change might cause 250,000 deaths every year between 2030-2050.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), climate change affects human lives and health in so many ways. One of such many ways is its threat to essential ingredients of good health such as clean air, safe drinking water, nutritious food supply, and safe shelter. It could also weaken decades of progress in global health. Climate change has also been predicted to lead to approximately 250,000 additional deaths every year, between 2030 and 2050, due to malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and heat stress.
Contemporary climate change has to do with global warming and its effects on Earth’s weather patterns. Although, there have been previous periods of climate change, but the current rate of change is apparently more rapid and has no natural cause. It is caused by the emission of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide and methane. Its transparency to sunlight allows it passage to heat the surface of the earth. After emission of the heat as infrared radiation, absorbance by the gases traps the heat near the Earth’s surface, leading to global warming.
Agroecology cools the planet;Â chemical fertilizers cause global warming.
The HOMEF Director further stated that while agroecology boosts and builds healthy soil, industrial agriculture that relies solely on chemical fertilizers causes harm to the soil. More chemical fertilizers are usually added to the soil yearly, not only because of infertility, but because a lot of damage has been done to the soil. This damage does not only affect the soil as it goes well beyond this. Washing off into rivers and water bodies, having negative effects on the whole ecosystem.
Agroecology, natural agriculture, is essential to cooling the planet and getting rid of global warming. Biodiversity cools the planet in the sense that the growing of variety of crops on healthy soil helps the soil absorb carbon by itself, adding more healthiness to the soil. Emphasizing on the need to be more attentive to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Bassey added that climate change will lead to agricultural failure, drying up of water bodies, environmental conflict, rising ocean temperatures, reduced fish, sea level rise, displacement of communities, and many more, if there arise no real solution.
Climate change causes death & illness from extreme weather events.
Climate change affects human health in so many ways one of which includes death and illness from increasingly frequent extreme weather events such as heatwaves, storms and floods, disruption of food system, rise in zoonoses and food, water and vector borne disease, mental health issues inclusive. Raising death concerns, it undermines social determinants for good health such as livelihoods, equality and easy access to health care and social support structures. The vulnerable and disadvantaged are mostly affected by the climate-sensitive health risks.
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Climate change affects human health in so many ways one of which includes death and illness from increasingly frequent extreme weather events such as heatwaves, storms and floods, disruption of food system… and more.
The best way to address Climate change that is a threat human lives & health is to create massive awareness on Greenhouse gas emissions & global warming and how it affect the planet & its inhabitants stressing on human activities as a major factor responsible for these effects.
The best way to combat climate change, which poses a risk to human lives and health, is to raise enormous amounts of public awareness about greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, as well as how they affect the planet and its inhabitants, with a focus on human activities as a key cause of these effects.
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Climate change has really affected a lot of things. Our environment need to be well taken of. Another way to address climate change is to create awareness on Greenhouse gas emissions & global warming.
In most cases, agriculture does not contribute to the emission of greenhouse gases into the environment, so it won’t affect anything.
Planting crops on a piece of land without employing the use of artificial fertilisers and other chemical goods is an example of sustainable agriculture.
Rather than resorting to the use of artificial means, the cooling of the earth can be aided through the utilisation of naturally occurring plant components.
After the heat has been emitted as infrared radiation, the gases absorb it, causing the heat to become trapped close to the surface of the Earth and contributing to global warming.
The use of natural pesticides and other forms of organic pest control on the crops contributes to the preservation of the soil’s natural health.
The destruction does not just effect the land; rather, it extends much more than that. Getting washed into rivers and other bodies of water, which therefore has a negative impact on the ecology as a whole.
The cultivation of a wide variety of crops on healthy soil helps the soil absorb carbon on its own, which in turn adds to the soil’s overall healthiness. This is one of the ways that biodiversity helps to keep the planet’s temperature down.
Human activities is a major factor that is responsible for Greenhouse gas emissions & global warming affect the planet & its inhabitants which invariably lead to climatic change threatens human lives and health. If proper awareness is create to alert human of how distractive their activities have been and how it is posing danger to our existence I believe these activities will either be controlled or stopped completely.
Agroecology promotes and builds healthy soil, while industrial agriculture, which relies entirely on chemical fertilisers, is harmful to the soil. Agroecology is a form of sustainable agriculture.
The most susceptible and underprivileged members of society are the ones who suffer the most from climate-sensitive health concerns and that’s sad
The effects of climate change can have a negative impact on social factors that are important for good health, including means of subsistence, equality, and convenient access to medical treatment and social support networks.
Essential rain in some parts of the world, global warming, and property loss are part of the reason why climate change is seriously harming human survival and health.