How climate change has affected me and my community by @mukadas
Good evening to my colleague steemians. I trust we’re all doing great. Today I will be sharing with you what Climate change is and how it has affected my community. Specials thanks to @thegreens for this contest.
Climate change includes both global warming driven by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns
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The major climate change impacts affect places and people differentially depending on the levels of vulnerability. My community vulnerability to climate change is in large part defined by its exposure to the various impacts with droughts and floods as the main drivers. The most affected sectors in my community include the economic, health and infrastructural sector. The continuous effects on these sectors determine the impacts and vulnerabilities of various livelihoods.
The health and sanitation sectors are always affected by climate change and I believe if care is not taken we will experience further stress in the future.
Water, air and food borne diseases accompany flooding, drought, heat waves, and dry winds are incidences that keeps on increasing. These interact with the sanitation nightmare experienced in the community
For example, poor sanitation and flooding will increase the incidence of malaria and cholera, while poor water supply will increase the incidence of guinea worm, and heat waves will exacerbate the incidence of cerebro-spinal meningitis. With this disease available and affected by individuals, the economic sector of my community usually gets affected it low productivity is yielded.
Even though the positive impacts of droughts may be that it helps in the reduction in disease vectors.
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Climate change impacts on infrastructure, example roads, dams, homes, drains and all structures that life revolves around.
Disasters which include floods, rainstorms and strong winds are becoming more frequent than they were in my community . Over the years, provision of infrastructure facilities such as roads, bridges, and housing in my community have not been taken into consideration.
The ultimate effect is that in times of intense climatic impacts such as flooding, infrastructure facilities are not able to withstand the shocks and also Potholes are created on the road and pool of water formed.
These factor causes the increase of road accidents on the road since the road to my community isn’t a coal tar road (first class road).
We can all see now that the impacts of climate change are starting to manifest on the entire globe and particularly on developing countries that are relatively vulnerable.
To ensure resilience in development and reduce vulnerability, unless mechanisms are carefully put in place in a systematically manner. Else climate change and climate variability may pose serious challenges to national development.
