Unit6: The Climate Crisis: "The Clock is Ticking"
Intro:
Climate change has become one of the most pressing issues. What with a growing number of natural disasters and scientific evidence of climate change, politicians are being forced to to take a stand on the matter. We will thus try and reflect on the recent natural disasters the US and the UK have been faced with, and consider the climate change debate through various approaches, from climate summits to preppers' techniques!
Survival kit:
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Step1: An ailing Planet: Natural Disasters and Pollution:
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20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina:
(doc1a) Document type TBS
- Drought in California/ California drought:
Document ESCP 2022 (doc1b)
- California fires:
(doc1c) Document type Essec
- Floods displacement in Nigeria: (doc1d) Document type Ecricome ----------------------------------------------------------------->
- Australia's Great Barrier Reef in danger:
Link (doc1e)
(Tree Hugger)
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"We are sinking": Pacific island nation calling on world leaders to act (at COP26+COP27)
video (doc1f) ------------------------------------------------------------------>
+ Tuvalu Prime Minister's e-petition on Avaaz here
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Preppers: Getting ready to any types of disasters:
Doc1d:
Doc1f:
Step2: The Climate Change Debate: Activists vs Climate Skeptics/Deniers:
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From "global warming" to "climate change": (covered at the end of Step1)
What's the difference between climate change and global warming? (NASA)
- Activists and actions to save the planet:
Extinction Rebellion (Rebellion Global) doc2a
<------- "The Tck Tck Tck campaign/ Our Beds are burning" (see video on the left, doc2b) / (original song here)
Greta Thunberg and the Fridays For Future
movement (doc2c) + Greta Thunberg
(Biography.com)
President Biden's new ecological initiatives announced at COP27 (doc2d) (The Guardian)
Keir Starmer's new climate plan (Le Monde) (doc2e)
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Climate skeptics or deniers:
Trump and climate skepticism (doc2f)
Trump declares energy emergency: "drill, baby, drill" (doc2g)
Step3: Climate summits and COPs from COP21 to COP29: a lot of hot air?
At home:
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COP21 in Paris:
COP21 (Agence Parisienne du climat)
Paris agreement: a fraud? (The Independent)
- COP29 in Baku:
In class: Elvi format
- Doc3a [article 1]: "The big takeaway from Cop27: these climate conferences just aren't working", The Guardian
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Doc3b [article 2]: "The Guardian view on COP29: poor-world
discontent over a failure of rich countries to deliver",
The Guardian
- Doc3c [thème]: "COP29: 'trop faible', 'dérisoire', 'échec'... Plusieurs états critiquent fortement l'accord", Ouest France
- Doc3d [cartoon]: "Lost of time to act, right", by Tjeerd Royaards, 6 November 2022 (see below)
- Doc3e [chart]: "Climate change: Global temperature"
Step4: Overconsumption + Go further!
- General knowledge:
Earth Day / Earth Overshoot Day link1/ link2
Black Friday vs Buy Nothing Day and Green Friday
Covid crisis does little to slow climate change (BBC)
Bill Gates' opinion on climate change and the role of world leaders (BBC News)
Find out your carbon footprint!
- A few glimmers of hope:
Montana Supreme Court climate decision
GenZ and climate change activism
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Movies dealing with the climate emergency:
An Inconvenient Truth, 2006
The 11th Hour, 2007
A Life on Our Planet, 2020
- Mock exam in the media lab: