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Webpage Outline Template
Introduction – Main Page
I. Attention-getting statement - gain the attention of the audience by using a quotation, telling a brief story or humorous anecdote, asking a question, etc.
II. Thesis statement – How Climate Change is violating our Human Rights
III. Preview statement – What our Human Rights are, how it affects women and children especially. Weather events such as heat waves, more extreme weather events overall and sea level rise and how they affect citizens.
Body of Webpage
I. Introduction
The environmental and health consequences of climate change, which disproportionately affect low-income countries and poor people in high-income countries, have profound effects on human rights and social justice. Consequences of climate change such as increase in temperature, heavy precipitation events, intensity and/or duration of droughts, intense tropical cyclone activity and sea level are all directly related to climate change. Those consequences of Climate Change are what’s directly violating economic, social and cultural rights, civil and political rights, and the rights of women.
The consequences of climate change threaten rights embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, such as the right to security and the right to a standard of living adequate for health and well-being, including food, clothing, housing, medical care, and necessary social services.
II. What’s at Risk
Women
There are many ways in which climate change disproportionately affects women. In low-income countries, women generally assume primary responsibility for gathering water, food, and fuel for their households. Climate change–induced droughts make this work much more difficult because water becomes less accessible, agricultural production decreases, and wood used for fuel needs to be obtained from increasingly distant places. As women face greater challenges in gathering water, they may develop increased risks of injury and rape.
Children
III. Direct and Indirect Effects on Public Health
Heat Waves
Heat waves, which have increased in frequency in recent years, cause a variety of heat-related disorders and exacerbations of cardiovascular diseases, respiratory disorders, and other chronic conditions.
Extreme Weather Events
Climate change has increased and is likely to produce more extreme weather events, such as cyclones or hurricanes, and has increased precipitation and flooding in some areas. In addition, climate change in other areas is increasing the number, intensity, and duration of droughts.
The risk of being affected by weather-related natural disasters is approximately 80 times greater in developing countries than it is in developed countries.
STORY
An example of how the effects of climate change more recently affected us was by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.Warmer water temperature in the Gulf of Mexico, resulting from climate change, increased the power of Katrina as it passed over the Gulf on its path to New Orleans and adjacent areas. However, although this hurricane affected all of New Orleans, the most vulnerable populations, including the poor, those with little or no political power, and people of color, suffered the most.
Whereas helicopters removed affected people from the roofs of private hospitals, the pleas for assistance from charity hospitals were often ignored. Residents of rich neighborhoods were able to leave New Orleans in their own vehicles, whereas poor people, often from low-lying areas, were often trapped in or near their homes, and, if they survived, had to seek short-term shelter, such as at the overcrowded Superdome, and long-term shelter, often outside of New Orleans because low-income housing there became much more limited.
Sea Level Rising
Increased sea level will worsen coastal erosion, exacerbate storm surges, inundate low-lying areas, and cause salinization of coastal aquifers. Sea level rise also threatens to inundate low-lying coastal nations, such as Bangladesh, and small, low-lying island nations in the Pacific Ocean
Allergies
Because carbon dioxide stimulates plant growth, including growth of allergenic species, climate change will likely increase the allergenicity and distribution of pollen and other aeroallergens, resulting in increased prevalence and severity of allergic respiratory disorders
Conclusion
I. Summary - What our Human Rights are, how it affects women and children especially. Weather events such as heat waves, more extreme weather events overall and sea level rise and how they affect citizens.
II. Concluding statement – We only have one planet, so let’s take care of it before it kills us.
III. About me – I will share a bit about myself
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Patz, J. A., & Levy, B. S. (2018). Climate Change, Human Rights, and Social Justice. Retrieved
April 8, 2018, from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214999615012242.