Hello friends, how are you? How are we?
Last week a student in the class I am teaching at Hamline University shared this website that tracks how the world’s countries’ actions are on track for meeting the Paris Agreement goal to keep temperatures within a 1.5℃ increase. It assigns each country, based on its actions, to one of 5 categories: critically insufficient, highly insufficient, insufficient, almost sufficient, and 1.5℃ compatible. I shared it with my team here at Climate Generation via Slack.
On Thursday, I walked into our shared room and found a coworker, seated quietly with her hand across her heart, breathing slowly and intentionally, with this same website open on her laptop.
You see,
there are zero nations
whose actions are ambitious enough
to limit warming to 1.5℃.
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New classroom activity explores root causes of climate change
Who — or what — is to blame for the terrible effects of the climate crisis? The Climate Crisis Trial: A Role Play on the Roots of Global Warming by Bill Bigelow helps students understand the complicated factors involved. New from our partner Zinn Education Project, learn about this classroom activity that dives into the root causes of climate change, and what students can do with this knowledge through this hands-on activity!
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