Recently, two extreme weather events have happened within the last month such as the floods in Louisiana and wildfires in California. Frequent disasters such as these have been altering healthy ecosystems and pave a way for climate change's destructive path. In order to make the future less scary, we must learn to adapt and improve as we go. Governments and the communities that are being harmed need both environmental conservation and humanitarian efforts to see a better tomorrow. Originally, environmental and humanitarian professionals worked in isolation until realizing that combining their efforts would allow for a healthy environment and healthy community instead of one over the other. This week, the World Conservation Congress is taking place, bringing together 6,000 people from all over the world to discuss solutions to the earth's most crucial environmental challenges. Maintaining healthy ecosystems will prevent future disaster risk.
After reading this article, I felt a lot of respect to the people who recover and reconstruct communities after such terrible disasters. By environmental and humanitarian professionals strategically planning how to maintain the environment, I think we are likely to see a better tomorrow. Both environmental and humanitarian efforts are crucial to reconstruction and one should never be favored or overlooked by the other. We need to talk about solutions to prevent the foreseeable disasters from occurring because if not it will affect climate change detrimentally. By having different professions knowledgeable in their own skills, we can come together as one and tackle these disasters more efficiently than ever.
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