Climate Change and Safe Drinking Water

[@BrianMartensMusic]

Thank you for making this content. Being a creator can often be thankless, but I appreciate the work you do.

[@kuntamdc]

Thank you. You're making a difference.

[@silversurfer8237]

Potable water was already scarce and contamination of potable water as a result of erratic weather exacerbates the problem immensely. Moving to nearer the Great Lakes is one way to get a more dependable supply of drinking water.

[@animewanderer41]

I keep having this terrifying thought that as climate temperatures increase slowly, dangerous diseases get more adapted to internal human temperatures. But then I also thought that it also includes diseases which may infect other mammals and thus lead to a rise in animal borne diseases too. It’s really sobering

[@Praisethesunson]

The range of tropical diseases is migrating north. I look forward to seeing Dengue fever in Denmark and Detriot.

[@平和-v1z]

Thank you, very well presented and informative!

[@KingDeku6967]

This man dose not age

[@Josh-ks7co]

Not waterborne but I got Typhus in Texas of all places.

[@Sassinator2014]

Typhus can be spread by flea bite in TX, CA and AZ. 🤦‍♀️

[@sergiotlx]

Thanks. Very informative.

[@iquemedia]

i became blind because acanthamoeba was able to migrate north and infect basically all the water in north america thanks warmer waters!

[@DeltaNovum]

Damn. Sorry to hear that. Is there any hope of ever getting a treatment as far as you know or is it definitely permanent? I hope you where able to adapt to it and still enjoy life. I can't imagine what it would be like to lose ones sight, but I know we humans are capable of dealing with a lot of stuff as long as we learn to accept our situations.

[@iquemedia]

@@DeltaNovum thank you! I'm actually 2.5 years into treatment and I can see well enough to not have to use my cane anymore! I have been very fortunate to have my community support me in getting the best medical treatment I could receive. I still have cataracts, but hopefully in another year they will be treated the adjustment was hard and depressing for the first 8 months or so (painful too) but I learned Braille and have been able to have a somewhat "normal" life screen readers and speech to text have really helped me in the online world, such as leaving this comment and reading yours!

[@DeltaNovum]

@@iquemedia I can only imagine. I'm glad to hear you are recovering somewhat and that there is hope for improvement.

[@iquemedia]

@@DeltaNovum thanks homie! life is good :)

[@pavelsmith2267]

Simple, field work is civilizations future. #FIELDWORK

[@l01230123]

It flooded twice this year already where I live. Nature isn't happy with us 😅

[@Dr.Gehrig]

Great to see you continue to make videos on the health impacts of the climate crisis. I am hoping someday you do one discussing the 2021 Emergency Call to Action on Climate that went out to over 200 medical journals. I really think we need to watch out about focusing on adaptation rather than mitigation. It seems to me adaptation is a fools errand as the target of what to adapt to is unpredictably changing and worsening, so the focus really needs to be on stopping emissions.

[@Croz89]

Adaption is probably a more realistic viewpoint. We're going to have some impacts even if we achieve net zero by 2050 (which might happen in some developed countries, but is unlikely globally) so we'll need to have some level of adaption. In some cases stopping emissions too quickly might actually cause its own negative health consequences, if we were to cut fertiliser production which is a major carbon emitter for example, we would probably end up with food shortages in some parts of the world fairly quickly. So it could be a choice between increased waterborne disease or starvation, and I think most doctors would find it easier to deal with the former.

[@Dr.Gehrig]

@Croz89 adaptation is NOT a more "realistic" viewpoint. We have impacts now, but once we cease emissions not only does the warming stop but within about 2 decades the 5th or so of warming from methane self resolves. Also, only about 2% of observed warming comes from fertilizer production and we can knock that out by using green hydrogen to make fertilizer, so small proportion and addressable. Actually, every emissions source is addressable. That said, the health impacts of the climate crisis are numerous and so serious that the medical community has released a call to action calling it the single greatest threat to global public health. Not hunger, not obesity, not smoking, but this. Nothing has higher priority.

[@Croz89]

@@Dr.Gehrig It's addressable, eventually, but any sudden change is likely to have adverse health effects, even if it's just food prices skyrocketing because there isn't enough biodiesel for the trucks, concrete for the roads or green hydrogen for the fertiliser. If we were to halt carbon emissions rapidly we would end up with a situation where the alternative sources of production for food, fuel, energy and building materials are either not enough to meet demand or have much more expensive inputs. So it would mean some people would go hungry or get sick because they can't get medicine.

[@Dr.Gehrig]

@Croz89 nah, you ramp things up as fast as you CAN, with what we can, when we can. Here's a video going through those. Some are currently financially superior to the current tech, which you do asap, the rest you ramp up as we can. But it all needs to be encouraged. In terms of trucks, we have electric semis like the Tesla Semi that can do what's needed, ramping up green hydrogen for fertilizer isn't that hard and again, only 2% of emissions, concrete has a variety of solutions. Just because you don't know them doesn't mean they aren't there. Again, the climate crisis threatens a mass extinction event once we pass the tipping points. If we had to kill half of all humans to prevent this it would be worth it amd save more lives than if we didn't. Fortunately, we DONT have to do anything like that, by employing these technologies quality of life will be improved and things be vastly cheaper and more stable, not the opposite as conservative fossil fuel propaganda tells us. m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXvCg6WCq7pgnpo&pp=ygVKdGhlIGNhdXNlcyBvZiBhbmQgc29sdXRpb25zIHRvIGNsaW1hdGUgY2hhbmdlIG9uIGEgc2luZ2xlIHNsaWRlIGdlaHJpZyByZmM%3D

[@Croz89]

@@Dr.Gehrig Even if the Tesla electric semis were currently ready for production (they aren't) it would take decades to replace all the trucks worldwide. It wouldn't actually be desirable to go faster than a certain pace, because it would mean you are producing more emissions disposing of diesel trucks that still have a useful life. Green hydrogen, we currently don't have the facilities to produce more than a fraction we need for fertilisers, never mind other uses like steelmaking. If we had to get to net zero in 2 years, 5 years or maybe even 10 years, we'd have no choice but to massively reduce the amount of fertiliser we make, steel and concrete we manufacture, kilometers we ship goods and more besides. Besides the devastating economic and social consequences this would have, for rich and poor, it would mean more people wouldn't have enough to eat, and more wouldn't have access to medicine, and so on. There would be major health consequences. So we have to consider if adaption would prevent this by giving us more time to change things in a more sustainable and stable fashion.

[@pavelsmith2267]

Sucha a vast amount of untended to field energies will lead to impossible amounts of untapped kinetic source code.

[@darfjono]

according to people paid to say these things, our video games show that things in places already suffering from corruption and disease will get worse if you do not give us more power to make your life worse (while doing nothing to make the people we're pretending to care about's lives any better) no thanks

[@pavelsmith2267]

Climate change and yoga. Yoga has changed, recently over the last fifty years. Climate has changed drastically step by step and over the last fifty years. New steps, discoveries in artificial intelligence and robotics, along with wide base human studies match with parallel precision the steps comparative of yogic studies and artificial studies. The mind and the body are more closely linked; over the last fifty year period than primarily meets the ear and the eye. Mental waste management. Tantra is intentionally designed to assist with difficult scenarios such as this.

[@larryvanbarriger6670]

Can't wait till I have my car running off of coal.

[@kevinmbrooks]

Do you live in West Virginia?

[@larryvanbarriger6670]

@@kevinmbrooks No I don't unfortunately so I will have to have coal imported. lol

[@Dr.Gehrig]

Good news that almost never happens. Less than 20% of US electricity is from coal and that amount is decreasing fast. Also, a lot of electricity and other energy is used to go from crude oil in the ground to gas in the tank, before you ever burn a drop to move an inch. Better to only use energy once, and far more efficiently.

[@larryvanbarriger6670]

@@Dr.Gehrig Oh I'm not trying to be efficient, I'm trying to put off the most black smoke possible. That releases the most carbon into the atmosphere

[@Dr.Gehrig]

@larryvanbarriger6670 ah, a doomsday death cultists, rarely see folks like you outside of dnd games and cartoon villainy. A bit refreshing. Fortunately, such people are outnumbered.

[@PoorMansThunder]

Thanks Obama.

[@CesarAnton]