5/4/3/2/1 NOTES #8

5)*Around the whole world, the main causes of death are chronic diseases, responsible for 24 million deaths in 1996, such as maladies of the circulatory system, cancers, mental disorders, none of the which has to do with climate but everything to do with aging.

*”Diarrheal diseases, such as cholera and dysentery, killed 2.5 million people who died worldwide in 1996”. Page # 130

*Death rates during the heat waves, more often confronted by these times, have jumped over certain cities considered poor cities such as cities in Central America.

*The scientist’s studies have found out that the major excess of death provoked by increasing temperatures is located in the South. Besides their studies have found that people who move from a cold to a subtropical climate adjust within a very short period.

*Experts have attributed the strength of the Southern people against the climate to the acclimatization and the prevalence of housing that shields residents from high temperatures.

4)*Aren’t the Diarrheal diseases provoked by the uncleanness?

*How can diseases that come from other regions adapt that fast?

*Why does a person from a cold region can adapt to climate faster than a person from a warm region?

*Does the population from the South have a stronger immunization system?

3)*torrid: hot.

*Affliction: suffering.

*Alleges: claim.

*Dyspepsia: indigestion.

2)* Foil: the author of this point of view contrasts every other author in the whole book because he is the only one who attributes the resent cases of diarrheal diseases to the immigration problem.

1) The reading now has turned to another chapter, in which now another theory of global warming has been reveled. Nevertheless, in my opinion this theory is very insufficient and ignorant. The theory establishes that with the global warming the immunization of our bodies will not be affected by any reason; that those diarrheal diseases that are more often attacking the United States, have been brought by the immigrants, which scientists have disapproved because it takes a very long period for the virus to develop specially when climate is changing at a very high rate.