What is Climate Change?
Long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns are the outcomes of climate change. Human activities such as burning fossil fuels produce heat-trapping gases that impact temperatures, leading to a key reason for climate change.
Costs of ignoring the problem
Benefits driving positive change
Approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year, from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea & heat stress
Economic growth and development of new technologies such as electric or plug-in hybrid cars
$280-500 billion/year estimated as global cost of unchecked climate change
Cleaner air and more efficient public transport systems in cities
9 years left to hit the tipping point
New jobs and "green" jobs
Greta Thunberg
Climate & Environmental Activist
Greta Thunberg is a Swedish environmental activist known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change mitigation. She held a sign saying "School Strike for Climate" to pressure the government to meet carbon emissions targets.
By December 2018, more than 20,000 students - from the UK to Japan - had joined her by skipping school to protest.
Case Study
Kindle combined new wireless and e-ink display technologies which eliminated traditional print waste and costs through e-content, available anywhere through a simple, customised e-reader.
The annual energy required to read a newspaper on Kindle is estimated to be 90% less than used for a print copy.
thoughts_ereaders.pdfIdeas youngsters can implement
Reduce food waste in the cafeteria
Recycling paper and plastic waste in the school and in your community
Find resources for climatic impacts (i.e. volunteer at cooling shelters during heat waves)
Complete a pollution capture - air, water and soil