“Climate Change Will Give Rise to More Cancers.” Climate Change Will Give Rise to More Cancers  | UC San Francisco, 5 Nov. 2020, www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/11/418976/climate-change-will-give-rise-more-cancers. Accessed 23 Nov. 2020.

‌ In this article Elizabeth Fernandez goes off the association between the increase in climate change and the increase in cancer cases alongside many other diseases as well. This article analyzed five dozen published research papers and experiments which all provided a clear-cut synopsis on how global warming affects “major cancers, from environmental toxins to ultraviolet radiation, air pollution, infectious agents and disruptions in the food and water supply”. With the temperatures rising and humidity only increasing we see a growth in respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. When looking at other climates, the changing rainfall patterns and temperatures also cause the risk of vector-borne disease, “such as malaria and dengue” to rise. Fernandez associates the increase in cancers with “air pollution, exposure to ultraviolet radiation and industrial toxins, and disruptions in food and water supply”. With all these attributes to the rapidly changing climate, one can only wonder why we haven’t made much progress in correcting ourselves.

When first reading this article it made me think about the greater and wider-scope effects that global warming and climate change will have on the human and all organism populations on earth. Because of many of the economical and safety problems of going out and getting a cancer screening during the COVID-19 outbreak, we may see a larger spike in cancer cases in the coming years than years prior. This also relates to the cause of more intense storms and hurricanes which are brought on by climate change as well. With deadlier and more destructive storms, they end up destroying and damaging many of the cancer treating facilities and/or hospitals which push back cancer screenings and treatment even more. Secondly, with the huge economic impact that COVID-19 has made we have seen a rising economic divide in poverty. With more people in poverty, which also accounts for most of the minority communities, we see less access to obtaining cancer screening and/or treatment at all because of their low financial status. Without being screened will eventually see these minority communities with higher cancer mortality rates. Overall after reading this article, it has shown me many of the indirect effects that climate change has on our society and world as a whole and certifies the need for us to revert it.