Australian scientists say that the global climate change is bringing epidemic of psychological disturbances to the world. They based their conclusion on an analysis of the illnesses of Australians, whose nation has in recent years suffered from droughts and cyclones.
- Australian scientists say that the global climate change is bringing epidemic of psychological disturbances to the world. They based their conclusion on an analysis of the illnesses of Australians, whose nation has in recent years suffered from droughts and cyclones.
- Climate abnormality increases the frequency and seriousness of depression, alarm and stress, as well as reinforces drug addiction, the scientists asserted in a report called “Climate of Suffering; real cost to life by inaction to climate change”.
- The Australian experts are not the first to speak about the influence of natural phenomena on the world. Their American colleagues have even declared that climate should be blamed for armed conflicts, finding a link between the military conflicts in different parts of the globe in the past 50 years, and the heat in the waters of the Pacific ocean, universally called “El-Niño”, which has an impact on nature on almost all the continents.
- It has been known for a long time that the health of people depends on nature. The weathermen and doctors warn people regularly about magnetic storms and other anomalies. There were a lot of irregularities in different parts of the world this summer. The glacier in the Kronoko Nature reserve in Kamchatka melted, and in South Africa, ice was discovered on the roads for the first time in 30 years. Such surprises usually send people into a stupor, but people in the world need to remain absolutely calm. “There have been many more such phenomena in recent years and people should learn to become used to them”, says Alexei Kokorin, an official of the Russian branch of the World Nature Foundation, speaking in an interview for VOR.
- “There is a direct link between the health of people and nature. Several years back the first snowfall in Russia was only in January, the sun shone for two months and doctors confirmed an increase in the number of psychological disturbances and suicides. People should be prepared psychologically to accept that natural cataclysms are not forever. It should be announced that it is not a comet that is closing in on the Earth, that we must continue to live normally, because climate change is a process known to scientists for a long time. Mankind expects such periods, and it is not so terrifying”, Alexei Kokorin assured.
- He calls heat, drought, and rains the most dangerous natural phenomena, saying that brief forest fires and typhoons galvanize the people into action, and like in military combat, psychological disturbances become less. Therefore, the best medicine is self-control, he said.
- But self-control will not be easy, when the forecasts are so frightening. For example, scientists at Stanford University in the U.S predict that in 2040, all the continents in the world will be hit by unprecedented drought. Countries in Southern Europe, Latin America and most countries in Asia and Africa will be affected. Source: oice of Russia.
