Global population futures
Issue Causes Impacts on health – positive and negative Management/Success
Ozone depletion - Halogenated Skin cancers - Caused by exposure to the sun - Australia = slip+slop+slap=
chemicals – either long term exposure or short ensuring you’re wearing
chlorofluorocarbons term exposure and burning. appropriate clothing, sun
used in fridges, - Malignant melanoma incidence cream and hats. Especially
insulation and spray rates increase more than fivefold focused on children and
on repellents. since mid 1970s their safety.
- Chemicals react and - However, warm places eg Canada - It was widely successful –
destroy the ozone can lead to increase growth in credited as playing a key
molecule in the crops and crop production eg role in the dramatic shift in
extreme cold of the cereal. sun protection attitudes
polar stratosphere. Cataracts - Form of eye damage which causes and behaviour over the
loss of transparency in lens of eye. last two decades
- UV exposure can damage eyes
- Can lead to blindness
- People located in countries around - Wearing good quality
the equator in LICs don’t have the sunglasses, blocking
capacity to get this surgery or to harmful UV rays.
replace their cataracts. - Surgery to remove the
cloudy lens and replace it
with plastic implant
Climate change - Can cause direct Thermal stress - Heatwaves = dehydration, - Global climate change =
impacts eg – overheating, heat exhaustion and lead to a reduction In
storms, floods, high heatstroke mortality rates due to
winds. - Smogs – high concentrations of decreasing winter
- Caused by increases nitrogen oxide and particulate mortality
in frequency or matter in atmosphere - Heatwaves have much
severity of extreme - Growth of blue-green algae in bigger health impacts In
weather. water courses – causes problems cities than in surrounding
- Global warming = for aquatic life suburban and rural areas.
benefits such as - Wildfires
Issue Causes Impacts on health – positive and negative Management/Success
Ozone depletion - Halogenated Skin cancers - Caused by exposure to the sun - Australia = slip+slop+slap=
chemicals – either long term exposure or short ensuring you’re wearing
chlorofluorocarbons term exposure and burning. appropriate clothing, sun
used in fridges, - Malignant melanoma incidence cream and hats. Especially
insulation and spray rates increase more than fivefold focused on children and
on repellents. since mid 1970s their safety.
- Chemicals react and - However, warm places eg Canada - It was widely successful –
destroy the ozone can lead to increase growth in credited as playing a key
molecule in the crops and crop production eg role in the dramatic shift in
extreme cold of the cereal. sun protection attitudes
polar stratosphere. Cataracts - Form of eye damage which causes and behaviour over the
loss of transparency in lens of eye. last two decades
- UV exposure can damage eyes
- Can lead to blindness
- People located in countries around - Wearing good quality
the equator in LICs don’t have the sunglasses, blocking
capacity to get this surgery or to harmful UV rays.
replace their cataracts. - Surgery to remove the
cloudy lens and replace it
with plastic implant
Climate change - Can cause direct Thermal stress - Heatwaves = dehydration, - Global climate change =
impacts eg – overheating, heat exhaustion and lead to a reduction In
storms, floods, high heatstroke mortality rates due to
winds. - Smogs – high concentrations of decreasing winter
- Caused by increases nitrogen oxide and particulate mortality
in frequency or matter in atmosphere - Heatwaves have much
severity of extreme - Growth of blue-green algae in bigger health impacts In
weather. water courses – causes problems cities than in surrounding
- Global warming = for aquatic life suburban and rural areas.
benefits such as - Wildfires
