Reading Response #5

In the scientific article I chose to read about for this reading response it discussed temperature related mortality and looked at what the future possibly holds for the U.K. and for everywhere else so that the governments could make the necessary changed to hopefully prevent what the researchers are predicting from taking the current state of the world and the current mortality rate and keeping a record of the steady temperature rise. The peer reviewed academic journal said that by the twenty fifties that the mortality rate, mainly for the elderly and children and those who are just more susceptible to the rise and fall of the temperature across the globe, could rise to around two hundred and fifty seven percent. That is a mind boggling and just utterly devastating amount of people that will perish from just the temperature, and this does not put into account the amount of people who will suffer and also die from the fossil fuel mining’s and everything that comes with the current climate crisis. The human population has been on the decline recently and this would certainly drive us even farther into the negatives. To some this may actually be a good thing since there has also been talk about overpopulation, but what they don’t consider is that this amount of people perishing to climate change will likely be a loved one or even could be the person making the comment. As the days go on it is made more and more clear just how urgent this problem is.