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.
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Date: 16. of November 2009 | By: Giuseppe Garibotto
Hello everyone. In the first question, about what people know about climate change, I have something to say about my country. Everyone here, or at least 9 out of 10 persons know about climate change. Why do they know? Because this warming is affecting everyone around here. Now we wake up and don't know what might be waiting for us, whetever a cold or a warm day. Sometimes, at 8:00 it's windy, at 12:00 it's sunny and at 16:00 it's freezing. We are waiting anxiously for summer though we know that it will be one of the weirdest summers of our history.
Many people in my country lost their cultives because of floods that were a result of Global Warming.
In the secund question, about what consequences it might have in your country, I would like to talk about mine. In Perú many people would lose their homes. We have an economy based on natural products. With the raise of temperature and the floods, many cultives would be lost, more than now.
And at last, about the third question, I think that many people know how to do good, how to fight this, how to make the World a better place to leave. BUUUUUUUUUUUT they don't do what they say, because it's "boring" (not everyone, of course).
Talk to you later.
Giuseppe Garibotto, Colegio América