Questions from U.T.C.V.SCHOOL

The climate survey question was a bit difficult for us because we were occupied with monthly tests and could not ask all the ten people. However we have managed to ask our teachers, few school workers and our parents at home for our friends that are day scholars.

Our teachers said climate change is change in weather for long period of time this may be as result of natural causes or human made causes, this was said by our chemistry teacher.

Our school workers said they think climate change is just a change in climate or weather from being hot to cold or vice versa.

Our friends that asked their parents reported that climate change in weather for period of less than 30 years.

The possible consequnces that have been mentioned by people we askes are

-They say climate change will result of heavy rains and drought at the same time

-Climate change also will kill their livestocks and agricultural crops

-It will also increase temperature

I think the answers given are almost similar and they all mean the same thing "change of climate" but more education is needed about this topic of climate change beacuse most people are not aware of what exactly does climate change mean and how will it affect their lives.

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?"

Most people are angry about climate change because climate change cause ozone layer depletion that result into increased temperature which results into droughts,floods,tropical storms and hurricanes that will kill people.

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.

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

YES, we students of Green Acres secondary school would like the following to be discussed in the coming world leaders meeting to discuss climate change:

-Provision of education about climate change issues especially in rural communities of Africa should be a priority.

-Rich countries should support poor countries in the use other alternative sources of energy

-Introduce competetion and prizes to countries that are doing more on tackling climate change problem in their countries.

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We would educate all people about forest management and importance of trees and disdavantages of cutting trees. We will then tell the people trees are important because they are source of rain,source of medicines(herbs) and help to break and stop strong winds.

We will also tell people to mitigate the problems by overcoming before direct impact occurs.

The past tells us that there were more trees than now because in the past people were not cutting trees like we do, and so they were no droughts as they are happening now. In the past people were walking on foot and not using cars and so there was no production of CO2.

The kind of life we would like to lead will be a simple life like living in a hut,walking on foot and riding a bike in longer distances.

No we are not free to choose the prospect of our life because we are still students and still living with our parents.

We enjoy studying, swimming,explore about nature, and conserving the environment.

We can do the things we enjoy depending on school schedule becuase anything we plan to do has to be at right time, but in some cases we dont do these things for example when we have exams.

We cant swim, explore about nature because we are students and we have other responsibilities like preparing for our final exams.

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We like Bagamoyo beaches because Bagamoyo beaches are cool and quite place clean with white sand and when visiting Bagamoyo beaches we can see see and land breeze.

In Bagamoyo beaches there are different lifestlyes such as fishing, family outing where parents bring their kids to swim and lots of foreign tourists that come to visit Bagamoyo, a former slave market found about 30 kilometres from Dar es Salaam city. The place is beautiful and amazing!Bagamoyo, which means ‘lay down your heart’ in Swahili, was probably given this name because Bagamoyo was the last place the slaves would stay in Tanzania before being shipped off to foreign lands. Although the slave trade officially ended in 1873, slaves continued to be sold and traded in Bagamoyo through the end of the nineteenth century.

During the slave trade, it was not uncommon to see hundreds of slaves walking through the streets of Bagamoyo chained together by the neck. Slaves were collected from the interior by capture, purchase or trade and then shipped to Zanzibar or Arab countries.

The famous person in our country is Dr. Asha Rose Migiro United Nations Under Secretary General, she is a very strong woman and the first woman to be seleted as UN Under Secretary General. She has been Minister of Foreign Affiars in Tanzania for more that two years. We are impressed by Mrs. Migiro because she is our role model and has insipered Tanzania women that they can do better then Men.

In Dar es Salam people help each other to keep their environment clean and safe, this happens during rain season especially in December where various people in their neighrboorhoods help one another to clean and open drainage system that are flooded with water during rain season.

Solidarity and climate protection means coming together to protect the climate and environment. This is important because some people cut down trees for their own use, so if we are not working together we can not protect the climate and environment.

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