How Climate Change Affects Our Daily Lives?

Most employees, especially those who work during naked seasons, pointed out that they are very much affected during a heat wave because of the extreme heat.

Maya, an Universitas Negeri Surabaya student, shared her experiences during the recent heatwaves. Everyone knows it's challenging to focus when the temperature rises this high. 

Taking these issues back to classrooms, for instance, the heat negatively interferes with learning schedules. "I want more air conditioning, but people don't always have that option," she said. 

More worrying heatwaves mean an urgent need for local and global action for the city of Surabaya in particular. Preventing greenhouse gas emissions is perhaps the best solution to climate change's long-term impacts. 

At the micro scale, Surabaya can take measures to minimize heat islands by implementing green infrastructure like planting trees, many of which can be implemented throughout the city, developing green areas, including planting trees in the city, and other practices.

Basically, Dr. Lestari explained that public awareness is important. There should be awareness created to let people know that it's a big problem. In other words, initiatives like the company reducing energy usage and supporting initiatives in this sphere count.

 Of course, we also require better regulations from the government to safeguard vulnerable people and build up the framework for forthcoming heatwaves in the city.

Climate change is another factor that is becoming increasingly part of our daily lives and the case with Surabaya can be considered as vivid evidence of this trend. Since then, the climatic system has been heating, and the city needs to address these challenges and look for ways to reduce their impact further. 

Thus, yes, we have a global problem in the form of climate change, but this problem manifests locally, and it is the responsibility of each of us to be a solution to this problem.

References: Altena, E., Baglioni, C., Sanz-Arigita,E., Cajochen, C., & Riemann, D. (2023). How to deal with sleep problems during heatwaves: practical recommendations from the European Insomnia Network. Journal of Sleep Research,32(2), e13704. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.13704ALTENA ET AL . 5 of 5