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01. Interview

Asked by: Gymnasium Neufeld | Liverpool High School (1)

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?

«The feeling climate change gives us is that of responsibility. We feel that we have plunged our great country into an irreversible state by our abusive use of harmful resources. It is our duty to at least attempt to correct the problem we have created for ourselves by taking the initiative. If we can do this, our country will have a chance.»

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

Asked by: Gymnasium Neufeld | Liverpool High School (1)

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?

2. Some environmental problems in Syracuse, New York that we have are one of the most polluted lakes in America and that is Onondaga Lake. Some things we are doing to prevent this is pass laws to protect the lake from factory pollutants. The URL for this is www.syracuse.com. This article stood out because of the title is about planting plants and we are big on making the earth greener.

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

Asked by: Gymnasium Neufeld | Liverpool High School (1)

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.

The emotion that we feel strongest towards when it comes to climate change is hope. The hope that things will change and people will open their eyes and see what destruction it is causing. The hope that people will stop being so ignorant and face the fact that climate change is happening now and effecting all of us.

Dan Jackson and Courtney Haggett

04. Imagine the whole world would be listening to your comments about the topic of climate change. What would you have to say?

Asked by: Gymnasium Neufeld | Liverpool High School (1)

What would you have to say?

We are hopeful for that in the future new and improved technology will help solve the problems of global warming. We have created this problem and now we have to fix it.