Activity 2: School Strike for Climate [4 points]
You may have heard people talking about an issue called ‘Climate change’. Climate change refers to an increase in the temperature of our planet. Warmer temperatures can cause natural disasters (floods, storms, droughts, bushfires, hurricanes, etc), rising sea levels, and the extinction (disappearance) of plants and animals.
Many people in New Zealand (and overseas) are worried about climate change, including Greta Thunberg, a 16 year old girl from Sweden. She believes that climate change is not only real, but that it is a “crisis”. She is upset that adults, particularly governments and powerful people, are not taking climate change seriously. In 2018 she began protesting outside the Swedish government buildings every Friday instead of going to school. She inspired the School Strike for Climate protests and, in 2019, spoke to the United Nations about her concerns. Not everyone, however, is convinced that climate change is really happening.
1.Australia takes education extremely series.
2.People think that the politicians were not doing anything about this situation.
3.simply going to school isn’t doing anything about climate change.
Buenas Noches Courtney,
ReplyDeleteKueni here again from the Summer Learning Journey. I hope you are enjoying your Summer break, what have you been doing these holidays?
Tino pai on completing today's blog post about the School Strikes for Climate in Australia. Thank you for sharing the three things you have learned from reading about it, I especially like that you have highlighted that people think that the politicians won’t do anything about the situation. Maybe after the strikes and especially what is going on in Australia, with the bushfires.
What an awesome photograph you have included in your blog post of you doing something at home that is helping to save the environment. That is something I do almost religiously especially before I leave the house, I run around and 1) make sure all the light switches are off and 2) I make sure all the power switches are off too.
Keep doing your part for this environment and keep up the hard work this Summer.
Adiós,
Kueni :)