“ Guilty Pleasure of Mankind” AMSA Universitas Sam Ratulangi
Background: In this poster, our main illustration was inspired by ice cream and its toppings. We symbolize the Earth as an ice cream that is currently melting because of the sunlight, that promoted by human behaviour to increase their pleasure in life. Industrial waste, motor vehicle pollution and deforestation, were originally enfored to increase human comfort and pleasure in life( the toppings were added to make the ice cream tastier). We came to this philosophy because of our awareness that all this mess of global warming and climate change derived from human’ s attempt to make this life become more prosper and comfortable. At first we did feel the benefit and we feel that our life has become better. However, from time to time we see that the climate change have caused so many serious events. Hence, we call this the“ Guilty Pleasure of Mankind”.
Objective: The health impacts of climate change are very wide and founded in all health aspects. For example respiratory disease, heat-related disease, skin cancer, mental illness, impaired food quality and safety, and decreased water quality. As the future leaders in health sector we are responsible on educating and mobilizing the people to be aware of this upcoming problem and take action to tackle those challenging health problems. Through this poster, we would like to remind the people that our time is running out. Our earth is keep“ melting” day by day, and the sustainability of the mankind is being threatened by now. All those“ toppings” in our life may bring pleasure to us, but at the same time they are destroying our civilization. Therefore, we should act NOW.