It could be too late to stop it, but the Earth is seeing more severe natural disasters due to human activity.
Climate change has been affecting the world since the 19th century, when human activity started heavily influencing the environment around us. Human activity has greatly increased the amount of carbon dioxide emissions into our atmosphere. The consequences of humanity actions are most recently shown with the hurricanes in Florida and the flooding in the Sahara Desert.
If you know anything about the Sahara Desert, you know that it’s a very dry, scorching environment that doesn’t house a lot of water in its ecosystem. So what should we think when the Sahara Desert is flooded for the first time again in three decades? It’s time to get worried. Between seven to eight inches of water have flooded the dunes in the desert. Because of this, rainfall flashfloods affected many small villages, destroying homes and being fatal for many. If this becomes more common, it would make the desert even more inhibitable and alter the ecosystem. But climate change isn’t just affecting other countries; it’s also affecting the US.
As the time ticks on the climate change, natural disasters get more and more deadly even in the US. Most recently, Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton have stuck in Florida this September causing devastation for its inhabitants. With Hurricane Helene causing more than 47.5 billion dollars in damage alone to the US, over 130 dead, you can only imagine the damage done by Milton. The death toll is still being counted because of how recent the storm is. It was initially expected to be as bad as Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which caused destruction that still impacts many today. Thankfully, the category of Hurricane Milton did go down before it hit land. With climate change becoming more severe and these hurricanes more common, it could make Florida and most of the East Coast completely uninhabitable.
Sources provided by CNN and APNews.com
