M12.9: Climate Change
1. What do you personally find most troubling about climate change? I think climate change is real and we are starting to see the significant impacts climate change has on our environment, especially through catastrophic events that recently took place in the U.S. and other parts of the world whether it’s storms, hurricanes, wild fires, or earthquakes. What’s frustrating is there are ample of scientific evidence out there that proved climate change is a real thing and is currently happening. Yet, some of the most powerful and authoritative people in the U.S. are choosing to ignore its existence and keep denying the fact that we are part of the problem of climate change. How can we even begin to solve the problem when we don’t even acknowledge the problem in the first place? 2. As a public health professional, what do you think needs the greatest attention right now? I think there are multiple problems that need our attention but if I hav...
