JAKARTA, SATURDAY - Based on the data of the world Health Organization (WHO) as many as 30 new diseases that emerged during the year 1976-2008 due to climate change and global warming. Special Staff of Minister of the Environment, "a bed Niode Amanda says the emergence of this disease due to temperature geothermal temperature continues to rise.
"The most obvious visible disease dengue fever, cholera, diarrhea, followed by a very deadly ebola virus," he said on the sidelines of the conferment Raksaniyata 2008 in Jakarta, Friday (14/11). According to him, the health problems caused by global warming is very badly perceived by the developing countries some of which are still poor because of lack of funds, so no longer able to carry out various programs and emergency response preparation.
To overcome the adverse effects of climate change on human health, could not be done individually by each state. These efforts will only succeed if it is done through global cooperation, such as increased surveillance and control of infectious diseases, ensuring the growing use of ground water receded, and coordinate emergency health measures.
"That's all important, because climate change is clearly a result of human activities that do not care about the balance of nature, which then serious implications for public health," he said.
In addition to causing health problems, climate change also causes a wide range of natural disasters is very large. Throughout 2006 there have been 390 major disasters in the world that many casualties.
"The United States case of a disaster than most other countries, but for the most number of casualties when the tsunami occurred in Aceh in 2004 and then," he explained.
In Indonesia alone, he said, a lot of natural disasters caused by a weak public awareness, such as illegal logging, forest fires, and disposal of carbon dioxide (CO2). Natural disasters can be minimized so that synchronization is needed between government, business and individuals.
source: http://nasional.kompas.com
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