According to medical experts, excessive heat has damaging effects on victim’s health as it can lead to dehydration due to excessive loss of water, heat exhaustion, heat stroke and sometimes death.
It is, however, important to stress that being a direct consequence of the global warming challenge which the entire world is currently contending with, long term solutions as against immediate remedies would be more appropriate and effective in dealing with excessive heat. Trees have been scientifically proven to be very useful as first line of defense in the fight against global warming as they absorb the carbon-dioxide in the atmosphere, replenish the air with oxygen and also contribute immensely to the aesthetics of the environment.
In this natural function alone, trees directly reduce the growth of the greenhouse effect and counteract global warming.As the world concentrates on global warming and its adverse effects on climatic changes, it is imperative that the public be more educated and enlightened on efficacy of trees.
Although planting of trees has long been a suggestion to better the earth, there is a desperate need for sustained action at making it not just an annual ritual as it is being practiced in most states of the country but what everybody, especially landowners, must embrace if we are to take the decisive trend of climate change seriously. The United Nations, World Bank, and other leading non-governmental organizations are therefore encouraging reforestation and other activities that promote tree planting to mitigate the effects of climate change.
