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2nd. After watching, consider these questions:

• What questions do you still have?

• What connections can you make between this movie and your own life or experience? Why? Does this movie remind you of something else you’ve read or seen? If so, how and why?

3. An additional challenge | Answer the fundamental question at the beginning of this post: What gives you hope in tackling climate change?

4. Then join the conversation by clicking the comment button and posting in the box that pops up on the right. (Students aged 13 and over are welcome to comment, but teachers of younger students can post what their students have to say.)

5. After posting, try reading it again to see what others are saying, then reply by posting another comment to someone else. Use the “Reply” button or the @ symbol to address this student directly.

6. Read to learn more “This Is The World The Adults Left Us.A Guest Commentary Essay published in August by Greta Thunberg with Adriana Calderón, Farzana Faruk Jhumu and Eric Njuguna. Young climate activists from Mexico, Bangladesh and Kenya:

Last week, some of the world’s leading climate change scientists confirm that humans are making irreversible changes to our planet and that extreme weather conditions will become more severe. This news,code red for humanity“The United Nations Secretary-General,” he said.

It does – but teenagers like us have been sounding this alarm for years. You just didn’t listen.

On 20 August 2018, a boy staged a solitary protest in front of the Swedish Parliament, waiting to stay for three weeks. Tomorrow it will be three years since Greta Thunberg’s strike. Earlier, brave young people from around the world spoke about the climate crisis in their communities. And today, Millions of children and young people united in a single voice demanding that decision makers do the necessary work to save our planet from unprecedented heatwaves, massive floods and the colossal fires we are increasingly witnessing. Our protest will not end until inaction is over.

For children and youth, climate change is the biggest threat to our future. We are the ones who will have to clean up the mess you grown-ups have made, and we are the ones who are more likely to suffer now. Children are more vulnerable Dangerous weather events, diseases and other damage caused by climate change are more common than adults. new analysis Very important, released by UNICEF on Friday.

Children’s Climate Risk Index It offers the first comprehensive view of where and how this crisis is affecting children. It ranks countries according to children’s exposure to climate and environmental shocks, as well as their underlying vulnerability to these shocks.

It finds that almost every child on the planet is currently exposed to at least one climate or environmental hazard. A staggering 850 million, nearly a third of all children in the world, are exposed to four or more climate or environmental hazards, including heat waves, hurricanes, air pollution, flooding or water shortages. One billion children, almost half of the world’s children, live in “extremely high risk” countries, UNICEF researchers report.

This is the world left to us. But there is still time to change our climate future. Around the world, our youth activist movement continues to grow.