GLOBAL ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
"Climate Change is the defining issue of our time and we are at a defining moment. From
shifting weather patterns that threaten food production, to rising sea levels that increase
the risk of catastrophic flooding, the impacts of climate change are global in scope and
unprecedented in scale. Without drastic action today, adapting to these impacts in the
future will be more difficult and costly."
https://www.un.org/en/sections/issues-depth/climate-change/
While reflecting about the 2020 United Nations New
Year message, many students claimed for action, young
people's action! For them this might be something
relatively recent. Most of them follow closely the
example given by the young activist Greta Thunberg.
Well, we introduced them to another young activist,
from 1992.
Figure 1. Severn Suzuki (1992).
Figure 2. UN Secretary-General, calls for global action
on climate change (September 2018).
Figure 3. Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot focus on
the need to protect, restore and use nature to tackle
the climate crisis.
The students shared their opinion about these videos and the need of a global action.
Some of them "were surprised to see that other teenagers also did the same things as
Greta" (João L.). Most students were really surprised to realize that we are addressing
climate change for such a long time. Many highlighted the fundamental role of trees as
carbon dioxide sinks and were in to the "PROTECT, RESTORE and FUND" (Irem B.) motto.
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