Climate change could already be making you less healthy — and it'll likely get worse, says a new U.N. report (via CNBCMakeIt)
over climate change and the potential for communities to be displaced by its effects. And the increasing frequency of climate-related disasters, like wildfires or other extreme weather events, is expected to cause an uptick in post-traumatic stress disorders.
In North America, research has linked the ongoing and potential effects of climate change "to strong emotional reactions; depression and generalized anxiety; ecological grief and loss; increased drug and alcohol usage, family stress, and domestic violence; increased suicide and suicide ideation," the report notes.
Extreme heat alone can worsen mental health issues, by increasing people's irritability and symptoms of depression, and putting people with mental health problems in vulnerable positions if they don't have adequate shelter,The U.N. report says the consequences in North America could be dire, projecting increases in suicide "in Mexico and the U.S. by 2050 due to rising temperatures.
The report includes a number of suggestions the world could take to avoid some of these worst-case health scenarios. Those include rolling out more effective warning systems for extreme heat and weather events, and improving building designs and urban planning strategies to better prepare residents for heatwaves.
Governments should also provide mental health services that take climate-related stress and trauma into account, and offer climate-related training to mental health professionals, the report suggests.
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