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Asked by: Kantonsschule Alpenquai 5La | Green Acres

Most people are angry about climate change because increased temperature result into droughts,floods,tropical storms and hurricanes that will kill people. That's what they say:

Developed countries are responsible for 75% of the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere today, excluding those from tropical deforestation. These nations have the most financial resources and the greatest technological capacity to cut their emissions.

Climate Change is affecting all countries, but Least Developed Countries and other vulnerable developing countries are expected to be hit earliest and hardest. Africa will be particularly affected in terms of food security, sustainable water supply and extreme weather phenomena such as floods, droughts and threats of desertification. Economies and livelihoods of an increasing number of communities, countries and sub-regions in Africa continue to decline ue to desert encroachment partly emanating from climate change and locally generated land degradation processes.

 

Asked by: Kantonsschule Alpenquai 5La | Green Acres

We have managed to get an article from Tanzania Daily News paper of Tuesday May 19, 2009. The is article titled "Two-degree rise ever more likely,scientists warn". It talks about the increase emission of CO2 into the atmosphere by human activities where scientists are calling for phasing out of fossill fuels because humans are pumping so much carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere that the 2-degree C climate baloon willl burst, new studies are showing that.

 

The direct problems that have been mentioned in the article include water shortages, food shortages and coastal floodings that will affect billions of people worlwide.

 

The article proposed on massive investment in adaptation strategies such as improving water supply and storage as well as protecting low-lying settlements from rising seas as solutions for mitigating impacts of climate change.

 

Climate change articles and reports are given a top priority in Tanzania as there is an avarage of one article about climate change every month that appears on Tanzania news papers.

 

The headline that caught my eye and impressed us is "Two-degree rise ever more likely, scientists warn" as it talks about new studies that show the continue rising of global temperature.

 

An article we would like to give on climate change article would be "Do we need to close industries to fight climate change?"

Asked by: Kantonsschule Alpenquai 5La | Green Acres

I think the feeling of responsibility comes in climate change because as human beings we are held responsible for causing climate change from activities like deforestation and environmental pollution.

 

People are hopefull that in the future the climate will improve and the world will be safe, education about climate change and environmental conservation will be given to all people.

 

There will be no difference if all people are educated about climate change.

 

The emotion we feel strongly connected to climate change is anger, we are very angry to people in our society that destroy the environment by cutting down trees, but we are ready and willing to help these people in our society to protect the environment.

 

Asked by: Kantonsschule Alpenquai 5La | Green Acres

We would like to tell the industrilized countries to reduce their CO2 emissions to the atmosphere help poor countries in fighting climate change impacts.

Now it is your turn to compile the questions 5 until 8. Carefully consider the best way of posing the questions in order to gain the best possible insight into the everyday views of your partner class.

Asked by: Kantonsschule Alpenquai 5La | Green Acres

There is still lot to do. We have lots of plans as a HotStuffChillOutMemberClass. We want to become active. Can the fluttering of a butterfly's wing really change our world? We think it can.

Asked by: Kantonsschule Alpenquai 5La | Green Acres

Because of HotStuffChillOut we have began drafting Climate change magazine that will be given to students and schools participating in the project. The magazine will be in English and Swahili languages to enable every young man get a chance to read and understand about climate change. We want this magazine to be available in libraries and secondary school libraries so that people know about climate change and the project we are doing.

 

I will let you know our progress and we will see if you can help us in editing the English version and the printing. We have not yet decided the title of the Magazine but we would like the title to be in Swahili word that relates to climate change or environmental conservation.

We know that the class in Dharamsala is also working on a magazine so we could do that together. The class in Kenya is drawing a cartoon for a magazine. It would be great if you would read our magazine one day.

Asked by: Kantonsschule Alpenquai 5La | Green Acres

We take part on Saturday when we have no class at all. We are in the middle of exams and we don't have much time but it is a good experience to learn what you guys in Switzerland have to say about climate change. We learn a lot about climate change. What is your project? What do you do to reduce CO2 levels? On the website www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/themen/21/03/blank/blank/01.html

we found the following numbers: Switzerland's footprint is nearly four times larger than its biocapacity

It currently measures 5.0 global hectares (gha) per capita. Our country's biocapacity, however, is a mere 1.3 global hectares per capita. The main cause of this large footprint is the energy consumption : Energy accounts for three-fourths of the ecological footprint, making it the most significant factor overall. Moreover, the energy footprint has also grown more rapidly over the last few decades than any other factor. Use of cropland, forest and prairies is another major factor, accounting for 22% of the total footprint.

Switzerland lives at the cost of other world regions or future generations

Our country's ecological footprint has exceeded its biocapacity for several decades now. The only way to maintain this unsustainable lifestyle is either to drastically overexploit our own natural resources or to import natural resources from other countries.

Mankind consumes the Earth’s natural resources faster than the Earth’s regenerative capacity

The world’s per-capita biocapacity is 0.6 gha less than its per-capita footprint. Switzerland’s per capita footprint is about the same as the EU-15 average. North America and Western Europe consume up to five times more than world’s available biocapacity of 2.1 gha. The countries of Southeast Asia and Africa, in contrast, use up much less biocapacity per capita.

 

Asked by: Kantonsschule Alpenquai 5La | Green Acres

We want to teach other people about it. Will you do something together with us? Let's come up with some ideas.

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