Adapting to Climate Change in the Cook Islands: The Human Health Dimension

The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) is one of the many international agencies working with Pacific Island Countries and Territories to help improve their understanding of climate change and develop effective strategies to build resilience.
The regular household “TUTAKA HEALTH” initiative provides routine surveillance of potential mosquito breeding sites.
Adapting to climate change in the Cook Islands: The human health dimension by the GCCA Project of SPC.

[@williampercival7662]

Mankind has done the damage to himself and now future generations will suffer. Everyone on Rarotonga need to get it together and keep your property's clean in and out, it's common sense so wake up and smell the coffee. W Percival from New Zealand 🇳🇿 Gardenia Band and Rarotonga Cook Islands 🇨🇰

[@Brandon-rq6jg]

Your map in the beginning showed only half the country. You missed the whole Northern Group.

[@normanfeinberg9968]

The population of these islands will have to be taken in and taken care of.The oceans are dying and cannot feed us as in the past.We humans are the problem so it seems.Our planet should be viewed as a living organisim like ourselves.Over population is killing us.I remember as a young man the reefs around Oahu were a fishermans paridise 50 years ago.No more.

[@Jay-vr9ir]

Population Control , but the 3rd World still wants to have their children .

[@johnuri7155]

These are health related programs, not climate change. So what has this to do with climate change? Doing health inspections (tutaka) is an intervention program. What support is the government offering for specific types of improvement the public can't afford to pay? New septic tanks, etc. Otherwise, this is more a health related video rather than climate change. It should focus on food sustainability, better weather forecast strategy, better building capacity to weather cyclone events etc etc. These are climate change related issues

[@spcnc1]

Hi there, this is one of a few series of videos done in PI countries with "Adapting to Climate Change" and taking a look at a number of dimensions that CC can affect. Cook Islands looked at the Human Health Dimension, others looked at food security, water etc.

[@schulzmj1]

What a pile of bull droppings! I have a couple of questions. What molecule is required in the atmosphere for all plant life to grow and below 150ppm all plant life dies? How much CO2 in ppm is currently in the atmosphere? What is the highest level CO2 is believed to have reached? What is the most important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere? Hint: The earth is covered mostly in it. If the temp goes up does the atmosphere hold more or less of this vapor? How much energy in the form of heat/temp is required to do a phase change for water from a liquid to a vapor? Answer: 2257KJ/kg (a lot). I hope you can see where I'm going with this. CO2 is required for all plant life on our planet. The more of it the better our planet does (within reason). People with an agenda usually money tell everyone CO2 is a pollutant when in reality it is LIFE! Water vapor is the molecule which controls the temp of our planet, not CO2, the more CO2 in the atmosphere the better the plants growth and in the volumes man is producing the planets temp is increasing very little if any. If the temp does rise, the water cycle controls the earths temp through the phase change, clouds and rain. This is the real inconvenient truth and real science. I have a back ground in thermodynamics and I can tell you global warming is one of the biggest lies ever perpetrated on a population. Just answer the above questions they are the easy ones.

[@williampercival7662]

Big game with your knowledge you should go to Rarotonga and teach these people how it's done. These folks are lost no direction to many bosses and no intelligence. William Percival Gardenia Band New Zealand Kia Orana 🇨🇰

[@schulzmj1]

@@williampercival7662 All you have to do is answer with some facts! If you can only answer with insults you know not of which you speak.