Our climate survey:

We went in town, looking for people to ask our questions. So we spotted these guys, hanging around and giving us a quite uneducaed impression. We wondered what they think about the subject. Although we weren’t expecting that much, their answers were quite shocking: “I will drive a car, smoke and do whatever I want- the consequences of climatic change won’t bother me. I will already be dead when the world will get in trouble”, said one of them. Some other disappointing answers were: “I like warm temperatures” or “I know one should do something, but I didn’t really think about what exactly…”

So we think, young people who are not that educated and have to work all day are not aware of the consequences, because they can’t feel them at the moment and aren’t very well informed. If we asked the same questions in our school, the answers would have been more satisfying, because we treat this matter very intensive here.

But luckily, we found some others who care too: Some older persons (and at least a few teenagers too) could think about the problems caused by climatic change. “It’s something that makes me worry. And it should bother especially younger generations as well.”

And what are the concrete consequences for Switzerland? “It will get warmer, so glaciers will melt. First we will have floods, and later on there will be a lack of water. We will lose some of our ski regions and a lot of tourists.”-“I think farmers will have problems because the climate will be dryer.”

Now we know: It’s important to inform people, who don’t have the ability to discuss climatic change at school, about it’s consequences and that they will occur sooner as they might imagine- and that it needs everybody to decrease the damage.

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