Climate change, premonitor of a global social environmental disaster
Abstract
During the last century climate changes developed on planet Earth, acquir¬ing in the last decades, such speed and intensity that allows us to qualify the situation as a climate emergency. It threatens on a global scale with an extinction of all living species, and in particular, the human species. This document analyzes some of the main causes related to emissions of greenhouse gases, mainly attributed to human activities. Other effects of climate changes on humans include: 1, spreading of tropical diseases; 2, floods; 3, hurricanes; 4, prolonged droughts; 5, increase in desertification zones; 6, massive species extinctions, and 7, increase in mortality rates due to hyperthermia and malnutrition. Some of the consequences of these events are: 1. Crisis of the economic models related to growth and goods production, which cast doubts on the current paradigms associated with wealth concentration and economic inequality increasing levels; 2 unem¬ployment increase due to robotization of services and goods production; 3, famines; 4, massive migrations, and 5, social turmoil, including toxic substances contamination. All these events may intensify armed conflicts between countries with threats of nuclear weapons use, pointing to a prob¬able end of our civilization, at least as we know it. There are policies that can stop this process by changing the growth and development models currently in use. We must consider that the current capitalist/neoliberal model is fed by consumerism of goods and services which prevents us from reestablishing the balance necessary for the health and wellbeing of the planet. This implies that all of humanity must embrace the challenge of following a new paradigm or model of growth and development, that takes into account both sustainability and maintainability independent of the market demands that keep them captive today.Keywords:
Climate change, prevention, mitigation, Climate crisis and Public policiesReferences
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