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: Our class managed to ask five people on what they know about climate, we could not manage to ask ten people because we are currently busy preparing for our final exams. The 1st person: was our teacher who said to him climate change is a long term change of climate of specific area in planet. The second person: These were parents who we managed to ask them at home, most of them said climate change is change of weather over a long period of time. The third person: This one was a journalist who said climate change is a transformation of weather in a long period of time. The fourth person: These were our fellow students in our school who said what they know about climate change is change of weather in a long period of time especially between 30-35 years. The fifth person: This was our school bus driver who said he thinks climate change is just a change in weather from warm to cold or cold to warm. 2. The possible consequences for our country (Tanzania) that were mentioned include: environmental degradation and pollution, soil erosion which lowers soil nutrients and hence failure in agriculture, desertification which will lead into people starving because of hunger. 3. We think the answers are correct because they all talk about change of weather and climate which is what makes climate change.

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

Our Answer: We could not manage to get newspaper but our teacher Mr. Rutta Evodius brought article from DAILY NEWS paper of August 2009 with a climate change article “Rising temperatures threaten livelihoods”. a) Direct problems that have been mentioned are the rapid melting of ice caps in Rwenzori Mountains of Uganda where it reported that ice caps in this mountain are melting so fast and it appears they can disappear in few years to come. The article also talks about negative impacts of climate change including capacity for electricity generation which then threatens livelihoods. b)Solutions proposed include the Ministry of Environment has prepared National Adaptation Plan of Action(NAPA) to mitigate the situation. c)The newspaper have given articles about climate change a priority as they are printed in the front pages to enable everyone read about climate change. d) The headline that caught my eye is “Rising temperatures threaten livelihoods” because it talks about the impacts of climate change to people’s livelihoods. e) The headline I would give an article about climate change would be “The role of youths in mitigating climate change in Tanzania.”

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

Our Answer: Anger: We think the feeling of anger comes when we are affected by environmental disasters such as floods, drought, soil erosion that are caused by climate change and killing many people. 2. Responsibility: this refers to being responsible to protecting the environment and stopping climate change. 3. Hope: this comes because with time they will be moderate rainfall and moderate temperature. 4. Indifference: Is climate changing monthly or seasonally? The kind of emotion we feel to be strongly related to climate change is responsibility i think it tells people and everyone to be responsible in protecting the environment.

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