01. Interview

Our Question: a) Ask ten people what they think about: 1.The climate change 2.The possible consequences for your country - and take note of the answers. b) What do yout think about these answers?

02. Search the local newspapers of your country for articles about climate change.

Our Question: a) What kind of direct problems have been mentioned? b) What solutions have been proposed? c) What priority have these reports about climate change been given in the newspapers in your country? d) Which headline caught your eye and impressed you the most? Explain the reason why. e) Which headline would you give an article about climat change?

03. The topic of climate change arouses a number of strong emotions in people.

Our Question: a) Write down your emotional feelings for the words “anger, responsibility, hope and indifference” in connection with the topic of climate change. b) Which kind of emotion do you feel most strongly in connection with the topic of climate change? (This does not have to be one of the four mentioned above). Explain the reasons why.

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01. Interview

Our Answer: We asked 10 people what they know about climate change: students from different classes, parents and teachers. We wrote a summary of all the answers. 1. Question: What do you know about climate change? The climate is becoming warmer. The glaciers are melting. More CO2 because of the cars and because a lot of people use too much electricity There are floods and droughts. Some kinds of animals and plants are threatened and are dying out. There are more and stronger tornados and storms. One person from secundary school we asked didn’t know what climate change is. She said: „ I think climate change is when the climate is hiking.“ We think that most people know something about climate change 2. Question: What are the concequences for our lovely Switzerland? Most people know that it is always becoming warmer and because of that also the glaciers are melting. So Switzerland can be floated by this water, which isn’t ice anymore. But just one person knew that the mountains are in dangerous because of the missing ice. They won’t hold together anymore. Some girls of our school who are older than us knew also that in a lot of years it will become very very cold, an iceage, and Switzerland will be covered by ice. Switzerland will always have enough water, so it’s not so bad for Switzerland but for the other countries it will be very dangerous. 3. Question: What can we do against climate change? We were surprised how much people knew what to do against climate change. For example always turn off the light, never leave machines on stand-by, don’t use the car (at least use a car which is eco-friendly). But we asked ourselves, if they also do, what they say.

02. Search the local newspapers of your country for articles about climate change.

Our Answer: 2.a) What’s written in our newspapers? About Switzerland: • Lower floods • Atomic power plant About the rest of the world: • Global warming - Forest fires - Droughts - Storms (Hurricanes. Tornados...) - Melting polar caps - Rising water level -> Floodwaves • Destruction of the rainforest • Environmental pollution - Leakage oil of super tankers • Extinction of species 2.b) Our newspapers solutions • Renewable energy - Wind energy - Solar energy • Recycling - For example aluminium - Batteries • Less fuel consumption - Electric and Hybrid cars - Less taxes for drivers with energy-efficient cars • House isolation 2.c) The priority of the reports in our newspapers Especially the reports about big disasters like a flood or a forest fire, which are problems which people are involved in, have got a big priority in our newspapers. Other things like the destruction of the rainforest or the pollution of the oceans aren’t very important in our newspapers. 2.d) An impressive headline In our daily free newspaper „20 minutes“ there was an interesting article about global warming last week, and especially about the melting polar caps. Apparent they melt many faster than expected. I can’t really remember the headline, but the article impressed me a lot, because for example polarbears won’t have any ice anymore to relax on and will drown, and in the end we wont’t have any polarbears on our planet anymore. And the melting polarcaps are the main reason of the rising water level, which is a big problem for coastal areas. And when the sun-reflecting ice is gone, there is only water left, which will get warmer and warmer, and so the climate. It’s just the beginning... The headline was something like: „The Arctic is smelting away“ 2.e) My idea for a headline I think the best name for an article about the whole theme of climate chane would be something like: „Climate Changing - Yes it IS a problem!“ or „Why our time is running out“ Just something which shows the readers, us, that we can’t ignore our biggest problem anymore. But if it was so easy...

03. The topic of climate change arouses a number of strong emotions in people.

Our Answer: a) I feel angry with myself sometimes, when I think about how careless I am from time to time. Like when I always take the bus to school, or always leave my computer on stand-by and things like that, which affects the climate. I feel responsible for climate change, if I fly somewhere by plane. And at the same time I think I’m irresponsable, because I’m not the only one acting like that. I hope, that some day the people in our only world will open their eyes and everyone will try to make a change. Sometimes I am or act indifferent to climate change. But when I learn in school about global warming and really start to think about it, it scares me and I want to change more and more. b) Mostly I get angry with the people who don’t care at all. But I also get very scared when I hear what can happen to the world. Especially when I see a touching movie like „The Inconvenient Truth.“ I also get sad.

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