The heat wave threatens us … the topic is “not a joke”

Crystal Al Nawar – Special MTV website

A free wave? It is a boiling wave, it is really sauna. The natural summer is no longer present and its place was replaced by record temperatures that suffocate us daily, and today we are talking about a severe wave that was witnessed by Lebanon in the year 2023.

“The grandfather Balsh,” says the head of the estimates department at the Department of Meteorology at Rafic Hariri Airport in Beirut, Muhammad King, who drew in an interview with MTV that “the real problem occurs if the heat wave extends, because it may cause health cases to hospitals if it continues for a long time.”
So, the topic is “not a joke” and advice and instructions is no longer a luxury, but rather an urgent necessity in order to preserve our health. Here, King advises to avoid excessive physical activity and reduce physical exertion, especially in peak hours (from 11 am to 4 pm). If it is necessary to work, it is preferable to take frequent breaks and drink more water while maintaining light nutrition with meals rich in vegetables and fruits full of water such as watermelon and cucumber. Without forgetting the constant care of moisturizing the body, repeated bathing, and doing everything that restores the body temperature to normal.
It is also important, according to King, to protect the groups most vulnerable to the repercussions of the heat wave such as children, the elderly and the patients because they are more affected by others with sun’s strikes and healthy repercussions may be dangerous such as blood pressure disorders, fatigue, fainting, etc. … Children or animals should never be left in a closed car even for a few minutes.

This is related to health, but what about climate change? What is waiting for us in the future? Do the seasons disappear in the country of moderation? King denies what is said about the disappearance of the four seasons, and believes that “all indications show that the summer is long and the winter is delayed and this is what we noticed in the past years with the delay in frost and rainfall.” He continues: “The snow was delayed in the past year to Canon, and unfortunately this year was one of the worst in the level of rain, as we witnessed less than 50 The hundred of the natural average. ” He adds that the four seasons do not disappear in Lebanon, “they can decompose or lengthen at the expense of others, and it is most likely that the winter is decreasing and the summer semester is prolonged, and the spring and autumn may not appear as we are used to March 21 and September 21.”

As for what we can do to confront this reality, it is adapting by spreading the culture of water consumption and enhancing training students in schools on the importance of water and how to reduce waste because it is an extremely important element in our lives. “If the little fall pattern is repeated for the quantities of rain, it will start from the average, then the alarm beats the alarm.”
Here it becomes a duty for the state to participate through all its institutions to develop a plan to combat the situation or to adapt to it, explaining: “A plan must be prepared to rationalize water consumption through dams or training students in schools on everything related to water consumption, with controls by all state institutions, and this is inevitable.”

In a country in which we calculate a thousand accounts before using water for drinking, bathing, or cleaning, talking about water consumption management is no longer an environmental detail, but rather has become a title for our daily lives and in order to preserve our health. And between the climate change that steals our chapters and the heat waves that vow with what is more dangerous, we discover that drought not only affects the earth, but we, with our health and nerves, and even our ability to live in peace.

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