Kantonsschule Oerlikon (1), Zürich, Switzerland

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The questions we asked

01. Question 1
Our Question: If you could choose anyone in the world to be your special climate hero or role model, who would it be?
02. Question 2
Our Question: Magic Johnson said: “I believe in the power of heroes. What is a hero? There are as many different answers to that question as there are people in the world, and that’s a good thing: we need different kinds of role models for different kinds of people. I personally think a hero is a leader who has a positive impact on people. A hero is someone who acts and through those actions changes the world.” – Tell me your definition of a hero.
03. Question 3
Our Question: A group of students thought it would be great to collect portraits of climate heros from all over the world. That’s what they say: “If we show people that if those local climate heros can make the effort, then anybody can. Let them see that what they are doing is rapidly becoming the norm, not the exception. Your climate heros don’t need to be famous. We’d like to show people just like you and me – with the little difference that they care. The goal is to realize an impressive exhibition of portraits from all over the world.” a) What are the most important things people in your country need to change in order to become climate heros? b) Some participants of this projects don’t like the word “hero”. Which other words could we use instead?

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The answers we gave

01. Question 1
Our Answer: We cannot really name a person we would really call a climate hero yet. But there are definitely some people who cares about our climate and do a lot of promotions to protect it. We would say persons like Al Gore are good examples in our presence. They try to get the attention of the people and to show the consequences in the future that would happen if we didn't care about our climate. Yet, we don't know privately a person who is a climate hero.
02. Question 2
Our Answer: There are different kinds of heroes. Everyone can be a hero in his own special way. A hero should be a strong character, and have the power to help, inspire, support or save people in their live. Magic Johnson is right when he is saying, that a hero should be a leader, this helps him in fulfilling his task.
03. Question 3
Our Answer: a) A climate hero doesn't have to make a big project to be a hero, even the small things like taking an energy saving lamp instead of a normal lamp, separating the garbage or using the bus instead of a car can be useful for our climate. Many little things together may stop the climate change like: - To go to the supermarket with old bags and not always use new ones from the market - Recycling - Careful heating - etc. There is not one important thing a climate hero has to do, but also many little things. Like this everyone can be a hero. b) climate helper climate savior or saver climate change stopper climate change fighter

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