Unanticipated effect of global warming
Usually, global warming conjures up fears of melting polar ice caps causing flooding in coastal areas, unpredictable weather patterns leading to drought, flash floods etc. This month’s Wired magazine has an interesting article by Clive Thompson on an unanticipated effect of global warming – depression. He describes how the rapid drying of Australian outback has changed the landscape so much that people living there now feel displaced although they haven’t actually moved. To them the surrounding appears to be a place different from the one they were familiar with – inducing depression similar to that noticed in people who are forcibly removed from their habitat . Our planet and its environment is a very complex system and any imbalance is likely to have unpredictable side effects such as this.
Tags: climate change, global warming
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