Original article here: http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/08/health/obama-climate-change-public-health/index.html
Rather than focus on the widespread and generalized effects of climate change, this article focuses on how it will affect people and their children. Climate change is no longer an abstract force that is heard of but never understood; it is affected public health across the United States. Air pollution is contributing to public health on a widespread scale. Asthma patients and those with respiratory conditions have to worry if the air quality for the day is well enough that they can go outdoors. Tech companies such as Google and Microsoft are working to develop technology that would enable users to monitor air quality and stay safe. Even so, air pollution accounts for 1 in 8 deaths worldwide. Developing nations will suffer the worst, as many of the consequences of climate change will hit them the hardest. Still, only half of all Americans believe that we are causing climate change and it is having dangerous effects. Hopefully, posing it as a public health issue rather than a national threat will make climate change a concept people can grasp and a menace that can be stopped.
I am glad that there is now greater awareness of global warming. Unfortunately there are still many who are adamant that there is no such thing. The main reason that politicians other large companies don’t want people to believe the facts is our current extreme reliance on fossil fuels. If we were to discover that we could easily switch to renewable sources in say, 50 years, I believe politicians would become turncoats.
