Title of Poster You Heat More, You Kill More
Name of University Universitas Pelita Harapan
Authors 1. Sylvia Wijaya 2. Novia Lauren Sieto
Contact details of Regional Chairperson( Name, e-mail, and phone number) Ananta Siddhi Prawara anantasiddhi @ gmail. com + 6281290187030
Background A 2007 World Wide Foundation( WWF) report suggest that there is an increase of mean annual temperature of about 0.3◦C in Indonesia each year. 1 The climate change may translate into various health impacts such as droughts during times of decreased rainfall, leading to cases of undernourishment due to uncertainty in water and food provision. 2 The increase in rainfall during wet season may lead to flooding, for example the Jakarta flood on 2 February 2007 that destroyed 70,000 houses and killed 69 people with losses amounted to Rp 4.1 trillion( US $ 450 million). 3 The increase in temperature also favors mosquitoes to reproduce at faster rate, their eggs to hatch faster, and increases their blood-feeding frequency, resulting an increased transmission of vector-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever. 4
Objective The aim of this poster is to enhance the understanding of impact of climate change among general public. The hourglass containing the melting earth aims to depict the situation in which we are trapped in a timeframe whereby we cannot avoid the consequences of global warming that has already taken place. However, as our tagline suggests, we could even make it worse by‘ heating’ it more through irresponsible carbon emission, causing even more massive consequences in a faster rate. The dry land, flooded house and mosquitoes represent consequences of climate change often faced especially in