The Climate Crisis is a Human Issue

For my environmental blog post I decided to read an article on the website titled “The Climate Crisis is a Human Issue”. The article starts off by talking about how climate change was perceived 30 years ago compared to now. I thought this was really interesting because back then they didn’t think as much about climate changes effect on people only it’s effect on the environment itself. I found this to be super interesting because it shows how serious the issue is. It’s also shows that we as humans don’t these things in the long term as well as we think we do, based on the fact that we didn’t realize how vital a healthy environment was to the human life. Another interesting thing they talked about in the article was how climate change effects low income people and countries first and the most. It also points out that this is especially unjust because these people tend to contribute the least to climate change. I think the reason this article was so intriguing was because it was able to connect two major issues, climate change and racism, and so clearly correlate them. It pointed out how when major hurricanes hit the south, lower income minority area said usually take the bulk of the damage. It also talks about how the environment for people in 3rd world countries has been destroyed by outsiders. That’s why this article points out indigenous people, as well as young people as the biggest activists , due to the fact that the are the most affected.