Iyo Yakavanzika Neurological Toll yeWildfires
Iyo Yakavanzika Neurological Toll yeWildfires
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Ikiz is an award-winning neuroscientist, the founder of EcoNeuro, the chair of the International Neuro Climate Working Group at Columbia University, and an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University.
Tsvaga zvakawanda pawebhusaiti yake: Burcin Ikiz PhD
Nekuda kwaClayton Page Aldern
Aldern is a senior data reporter at Grist, a research affiliate at the University of Washington’s Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology, and the author of "Kurema Kwezvisikwa: Kuchinja Kwemamiriro ekunze Kunochinja Uropi Hwedu."
Kuti utore zvimwe zvekunyora kwaAldern, tungamira ku 'Wese munhu ane pekuputsika': kuti dambudziko remamiriro ekunze rinokanganisa sei huropi hwedu, muThe Guardian.
Iwe unogona zvakare kudzidza zvakawanda pawebhusaiti yake: https://claytonaldern.com/
Kukuvadza Kwemusango Kwevana Kukura Kwepfungwa
Muna Ndira 2025, imwe ye moto wesango wakaipisisa munhoroondo yeUS wakaparadza nharaunda dzinoverengeka muLos Angeles County, kusanganisira Pacific Palisades uye Altadena. Mutero wepakarepo wakashamisa: vanenge 30 vakafa, vanhu vanopfuura 200,000 18,000 vakadzingwa, uye vanopfuura XNUMX XNUMX misha uye zvivakwa zvakaparadzwa. Uyezve, a tsvakurudzo vanofungidzira kuti moto wakabatanidzwa kune vanopfuura mazana mana nemakumi mana vakafa zvakanyanya mudunhu iri.
Asi kunyangwe nhamba idzi hadzitore huwandu hwakazara hwekukuvadza. Migumisiro yenjodzi pauropi hwedu ichangotanga kubuda
Uchapupu hwemazuva ano hunotyisa. Kufumurwa nehutsi hwemoto wemusango uye kushungurudza panguva yakaoma mahwindo ekusimudzira kunogona kunyatso chinja huropi chimiro nekushanda. Poshi kudzidza kwakadzikama found that prenatal exposure to air pollution — the kind generated by wildfires, for example — was associated with measurable changes in fetal brain morphology, including reduced cortical folding and increased cerebrospinal fluid space. These changes were most pronounced when exposure occurred during mid-to-late pregnancy.
Zvinorehwa zvacho zvakadzama. Vakadzi vane pamuviri vakafema chiutsi chine ngozi mukati memazuva aNdira muLA vanogona kuzvara vana vane shanduko dzisiri pachena asi dzakakura mukukura kwehuropi. Ava vanhu vaduku vangatarisana nengozi dzakawedzerwa dzezvinetso zvokungwarira, kuremara kudzidza, uye denho dzetsika izvo zvingasaoneka kutozosvikira vasvika zera rechikoro.
Migumisiro yacho inopfuura kure nepamuviri. Ongororo yapfupi has illustrated that exposure to fine particulate matter from wildfires is a greater risk factor for dementia than that from other sources (like car exhaust). Similarly, a study on California’s 2018 Camp Fire kwakaratidza iyo kuratidzwa kwakananga kwekushungurudzika kubva kunjodzi dzemamiriro ekunze kunonyanya kushandura kugona kwekuita sarudzo. Vachishandisa tekinoroji yehuropi-yekufungidzira, vamwe vaaishanda navo vakawana kuti vakapona mumoto wemusango vakaratidza kusarongeka kwemubairo kugadzirisa uye kuchinjika neural chiitiko mumatunhu akakosha pakutariswa uye basa rekutonga. Chinonyanya kunetsa, kuchinja uku kwakaramba kuripo kwerinopfuura gore mushure menjodzi.
Vana ndivo vanonyanya kutambudzika. Imwe ongororo ichangoburwa Kutevera vana vakafumurwa kusvibiswa kwemhepo panguva yekukura kwekutanga kwakawana kudzikira kwekuita kwekuziva uye kuchinjika chimiro chehuropi chinogona kuenderera kusvika mukuyaruka. Huropi huri kukura hunonyatso nzwisisa kune chepfu yezvakatipoteredza, uye cocktail yezvinosvibisa zvinoburitswa kana nharaunda dzichitsva - kusanganisira simbi dzinorema, mapurasitiki, uye akawanda emakemikari emakemikari (kusanganisira zvinodzimisa moto zvinoshandiswa kudzima moto) - zvinounza njodzi dzisina kumboitika.
Chokwadi, dzimwe dzenjodzi idzi dzinogona kuratidza munguva pfupi. Asi nzanga dziri kutanga kunzwisisa miuyo yenguva refu yokuratidzirwa kutsvina yakaisa muchetura mumhepo yadzo, ivhu, uye mvura uye inopfuurira kudaro sezvo kuchenesa marara kunowedzera kushatiswa.
Understanding these long-term health impacts is particularly complex because the neurological effects in question aren’t limited to smoke exposure. The psychological trauma of losing homes, communities, and loved ones creates what researchers call “climate trauma”: a distinct form of mental and cognitive health impairment that affects brain function in measurable ways. Behavioural and psychological effects have been documented in recent mupfungwa utano survey ye LA naMaui vakapona mumoto wemusango. Brain scans yevakapona njodzi ratidza hyperactivity mumatunhu ane hukama nekushushikana uye kusagadzikana, pamwe nekukanganisa basa munzvimbo dzine chekuita nekuita sarudzo uye kudzora manzwiro.
Zvichida zvakanyanya zvine chekuita, uku kukanganiswa kwetsinga kunoratidzika kunge kwakabatana muzvizvarwa.
Tsvagiridzo iri kubuda inoratidza kuti kushungurudzika uye kuratidzwa kwezvakatipoteredza kunogona kuchinja maitiro ekutaura kwemajini anopfuudzwa kuvana nevazukuru, chiitiko chinozivikanwa se epigenetic nhaka. Zvinogona kutora makumi emakore kuti tinzwisise kukuvadzwa kweidzi moto wesango uchangopfuura.
Kunyangwe humbowo uhwu huri kuwedzera, masisitimu edu ezvino ekupindura njodzi haana kugadzirira zvinorwadza kugadzirisa hutano hwehutano. Emergency protocols inotarisa pane zvinodikanwa zvekurapa nekukurumidza uye pekugara kwenguva pfupi, nekufunga kushoma kwekuchengetedza hutano hwehuropi kana kutarisa kwenguva yakareba mhedzisiro yetsinga. Inishuwarenzi marongero haavhare iyo yakasarudzika ongororo inodiwa kuti uone zvisizvo shanduko yekuziva, uye Hutano hwepfungwa zviwanikwa zvichiri kushomeka zvakanyanya. Zvakare, kuvhiringwa kwehurongwa hwekuchengetedza hutano kunovhiringidza kuchengetwa kuri kuramba kuchiitwa nevanhu vane hutano hwepfungwa kana hwepfungwa, izvo zvinogona kukurumidza kufambira mberi kwechirwere kana kuwedzera zviratidzo.
Tinofanira kushandura maitiro edu. Sezvo njodzi dzemamiriro ekunze dzichiwanda uye dzakanyanya, kuchengetedza hutano hwetsinga kunofanirwa kuve chinhu chepakati chekugadzirira kwekukurumidzira uye kuedza kudzoreredza.
Tinoda masisitimu akarongeka ekutarisa hutano hwehuropi muhuwandu hwakafumurwa, kunyanya vana nevakadzi vane pamuviri. Tinoda mapurogiramu ekutanga ekupindira kuti titsigire kuvandudzwa kwehuropi munharaunda dzakakanganiswa.
And we need policies that account for the full neurological cost of climate change when making decisions about everything from urban planning to health care resource allocation.
Mwoto uyu zvakare unosimbisa mibvunzo yakakosha yeruramisiro. Nharaunda dzine ruvara uye nharaunda dzine mari yakaderera, dzatove pachena zvisingaenzaniswi nekusvibiswa kwemhepo, dzinotakura mutoro unorema zvekukanganisa kwemoto wemusango. Idzi nharaunda dzinowanzo shaya mukana wezviwanikwa zvehutano zvinodikanwa kugadzirisa mhedzisiro yetsinga, kugadzira kutenderera kwezvakatipoteredza uye hutano kusaenzana kunozoenderera kuzvizvarwa.
Kufambira mberi, tinofanira kunyatsofunga zvakare kuti tinoyera sei njodzi. Kukuvadzwa kwepfuma uye vanhu vakakuvadzwa pakarepo vanomiririra chikamu chiduku chemutengo chaiwo wenharaunda. Uwandu hwetsinga - kukanganisa kwenjere, kuremara kwekudzidza, matambudziko ekutarisa, uye kunonoka kwekukura - zvichakanganisa mhuri dzisingaverengeki kwemakumi emakore ari kuuya. Ongororo dzezvehupfumi dzinofuratira idzi mitengo dzakavanzwa dzinorerutsa mutengo chaiwo wekushanduka kwemamiriro ekunze.
Tsvakurudzo chete haina kukwana. Tinoda Hurumende yehutano vatungamiriri kuti vatore kuchengetedzwa kwetsinga zvakakomba, vanoronga maguta kuti vatarise hutano hwehuropi mukuronga kwekusimba, uye vanogadzira mitemo kuti vaone kuti kurwisa shanduko yemamiriro ekunze ndiko kurwira remangwana rekuziva kwevanhu.
While we cannot undo the fires, we can still work to protect the developing brains of the next generation if we act with the urgency this crisis demands.
Sezvineiwo, uropi - kunyanya huropi hunokura - hunosimba zvinoshamisa. Nekuda kweiyo neuroplasticity, vana vanowanzove nekwaniso yekupora kubva mukutukwa kwezvakatipoteredza, kuvakazve hukama neural, uye kugadzirisa maitiro avo, vachipihwa rutsigiro rwakafanira, chengetedzo, uye kutarisirwa. Asi nguva haisi kudivi redu. Dambudziko remamiriro ekunze idambudziko reurological, uye isu tinofanira kuzvibata saizvozvo.
Burcin Ikiz PhD will be part of a series on Neurosustainability in October 2025, featuring the work of Mohamed Hesham Khalil.
