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Is climate change changing the way of our interaction?
     -    Dr (Ms) Sharad Singh
Writer, Author & Social Activist
Blogger - "Climate Diary Of Dr (Ms) Sharad Singh"

      With the passage of time, there has been a rapid change in the way of communication. If people in their 40s to 50s remember their childhood days, they would find that they were afraid of answering their parents in their childhood. But today this trend has reduced in children. They insist on their parents, openly question and answer them and sometimes even do hate speech. This trend of hate speech has also increased rapidly among youth and now this type of trend is being seen in adults as well. It is generally believed that social change is the biggest reason for this. But as a result of a study recently, the startling fact came out that climate change is also an important reason for this. Is it really? Let's see the facts.

The campaign of #NoHateSpeech is being run all over the world. Sensitive people all over the world are concerned about the trend of hate speech being practiced. Interpersonal communication has changed rapidly in the recent past. People start venting their anger on each other even on small things. The role of social media in this direction is always blamed. Actually, social media comes before us as a mirror of social behavior. Trolling anyone on unnecessary things has become a trivial thing today. In order to damage the career of any person, his personal life is tossed. The trend of "red tagging" has also increased. If seen, this is unbalanced behavior of human beings. Such negative behavior hinders the work of those who are doing the right deeds. For example, those running the campaign of climate change awareness were trolled in Europe and America. they made a victim of hate speech. They are "red tagged". This is just an example. Its darker shades are seen in the field of politics. Political parties troll personal life of opposition's person to break the morale of their opposition. He is made a victim of hate speech. It is also said that some political parties hire trollers properly.

After all, what has happened that there is such a difference in the behavior of interaction? Is social change only responsible for this or is climate change also responsible for this? When the matter has come to the relationship between climate and mind, just remember the full moon night of the full moon. Scientists believe that on the night of the full moon, the mind is more restless and there is less sleep. Thoughts of committing suicide or murder increase in the mind of weak-hearted people. According to scientists, the effect of the moon is very strong on this day, due to these reasons the neuron cells in the blood inside the body become active and in such a situation the person remains more excited or emotional. In astrology, the moon is considered the god of the mind. The moon is not visible on the new moon day. In such a situation, people who are very emotional, this thing has the most effect on them. The person who is negative thinking takes his negative power under its influence. Amavasya is the time of union of Sun and Moon. On this day both stay in the same zodiac.
Well, no astrology, we talk about only scientific facts. Temperature is directly related to our mind and behavior. Too much heat or cold both fill our with anger and hatred. We are in the best mood at 12 to 21 degrees Celsius. Anger also comes less during this time. The Lancet Planetary Health studied the behavior of people living in 773 US cities by temperature. In this it was found that anger increases in a person when it is too hot or too cold and when he is unable to show anger or hatred physically, he expresses it online. The report said that during the US heat wave, the cases of online hate speech or hate text increased significantly. Researchers say that 25% of Black and 10% of Hispanic people in America are the most victims of online hate speech. Changes in the weather have resulted in four times more people in the LGBTQ community being victims of online hate speech. The team at The Lancet Planetary Health, led by Leonie Wenz of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, examined 400 million tweets in the US over the 6 years from May 2014 to May 2020. For this, he prepared an algorithm from artificial intelligence, which recognized hate speech. In this, 7 crore 50 lakh tweets were of hate speech, i.e. 2% of the total tweets. The team checked which tweets were from which area and what was the weather like there that day. Where the temperature was 15 to 18 degree Celsius, there was a slight increase in hate speech tweets. People living in the temperature of -3 to -5 degree Celsius have 12.5% more hate speech than others.

Another fact that In desert areas where the temperature was 42 to 45 degrees Celsius, tweets containing hate speech increased by 22%. It is surprisingly came out that those who are unable to tolerate the sudden change in temperature, they also start doing hate speech. Even in areas with higher average incomes where people can afford ACs, when the temperature rises, people have angry hate tweets. They say, but it is not that we are not able to harmonize with the weather. For hate speech, the team of researchers took the United Nation's definition as the standard. According to this, any kind of derogatory remarks on any person or group on the basis of their religion, race, nationality, color, gender or any other identity comes under hate speech.

We all know that climate change is not a one day, one month or one year event. This change has been happening for years. Climate change is causing changes in the weather and the temperature of the earth. This change is affecting the way humans interact. Be it too cold or too much heat, both affect the human brain. That is why the rapidly increasing pace of climate change has to be slowed before fatal changes in human behavior can occur.
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(18.09.2022)
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