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Climate Change and Our Sleepless Future
- Dr (Ms) Sharad Singh*
Writer, Author & Social Activist
Blogger - "Climate Diary Of Dr (Ms) Sharad Singh"
Neend kyoon raat bhar nahin aatee.. (Why can't sleep throughout the night) - This is a famous line by Mirza Ghalib in which the poet explores the reasons for not sleeping through the night. He cites many reasons for sleeplessness in his Ghazal, but they do not include the reason that researchers have recently discovered. That reason is climate change. Yes, due to climate change, average sleep at nights has started decreasing. If this momentum continues, then we will get a future battling insomnia.
We have made a very expensive deal with ourselves. We have left no stone unturned to pollute nature in every way by snatching pure water, pure air, pure soil and greenery. In return, nature remained silent. This boosted our spirits and we started exploiting natural substances indiscriminately. Eventually, the stamina of nature also started running out and we started getting results in the form of climate change. The seasons began to change their calendar and where there was no shortage of water, there was drought and where there was balanced rain, there were floods. We have raised the temperature through factories, vehicles and huge glasses of skyscrapers so much that now the speed of melting of glaciers has also accelerated.
We have harassed nature so far that nature will not forgive us easily. We should be ashamed of our transgressions in front of nature and apologize to her. In this context, Assistant Professor of Sanskrit Department of Harisingh Gour Central University, Sagar, Dr. Naunihal Gautam's Sanskrit poem I was read with Hindi translation, a part of which is as follows-
Surya Arghyaparnat Pooram
Kshamam yache, Krittandagdhani Vanani,
Dravitani Himkhandani, Nidaghadgdhan Jeevan,
Taptan Graman, Suryaam, Nisaranga Cha.
Meaning - Before worshiping the sun I apologize, from cut/burnt forests, from melting glaciers, from creatures burning with heat, from burning villages, from the sun, from nature.
Yes, The only way left is to apologize to nature for our mistakes and make every effort to rectify our mistakes. Otherwise a sleepless future awaits us. The accumulation of greenhouse gasses, especially carbon dioxide and methane, is increasing in the atmosphere. Since the 1850s, since temperature records began, the world's temperature has risen or warmed by about 0.7 °C per year, and most of the warming has occurred over the past three decades. It has been estimated that this carbon dioxide is present in the atmosphere for more than the last hundred years and the actions we are doing today will definitely have a negative impact on human health and future generations.
In the latest study, it has been revealed that climate change will lead to sleep deprivation among humans as researchers have attempted to predict future effects on our sleep. For the study, researchers analyzed the data they gathered from sleep trackers worn by the people and they also studied the global weather. Research findings suggest that by the year 2099, per person per year may lose 50 to 58 hours of sleep. In addition, temperature will have a significantly greater impact on sleep deprivation in residents of low-income countries as well as older adults and women.
"Our results show that sleep is vital for human health and functioning, which can be disturbed by warm temperatures," said study researcher Kelton Minor from the University of Copenhagen. The researchers' data showed that each person's sleep quality is deteriorating during periods of warm weather. The researchers used sleep data collected around the world from accelerometer-based sleep-tracking wristbands. The data included 7 million nighttime sleep records of more than 47,000 adults from 68 countries spread across all continents except Antarctica. The study suggested that on very hot nights at temperatures above 30 °C, sleep is reduced by an average of 14 minutes. As the temperature rises, the likelihood of sleeping decreases to seven hours.
The continuous increase in the time interval of warm winds due to climate change is a sign of a dangerous trend. Psychological imbalances such as anxiety and depression are on the rise in developing countries. Due to which the environment of the house is getting destroyed and financially the public is also getting harmed. Cases of suicide are on the rise and cases of behavioral imbalance in children may also increase. This is a serious condition and needs to be diagnosed in time.
According to the WHO, due to climate change, effects such as malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and heat or heat are being seen, which can cause about 2.5 lakh additional deaths every year. Even if countries succeed in finding a way to limit global warming to one and a half degrees Celsius, then the health of billions of people around the world is sure to be seriously affected.
Around one billion people worldwide lack access to clean drinking water. Due to both polluted water and water scarcity, developing countries are facing water borne diseases. On the other hand, in those areas where uncontrolled heavy rains have started, diseases have started arising due to excess water. For example, cases of cryptosporidiosis due to heavy rainfall have been reported in the United States and other parts of the world.
Many countries of the world are starting to worry about the bad effects of climate change on human health. Under the Paris Agreement, countries are prioritizing their national climate plans, ranging from the benefits of emissions reductions to optimizing healthcare systems, according to the WHO's Global Survey on Health and Climate Change. New approaches to health care also include creating effective ways to keep cities cool to avoid extreme heat-related illness and death. Apart from this, water supply and sanitation systems can also be made to prevent contamination of drinking water during floods.
Due to climate change, there are many diseases which have started taking birth and in future they can take a formidable form. Not only lack of sleep, but there will also be an increase in physical and mental diseases due to lack of sleep. Therefore, if we do not want a sleepless and disease-ridden future, then we have to take the initiative and slow down the pace of climate change. In other words, we have to improve the health of the earth and nature for our health.
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(05.06.2022)
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