Who Is Responsible For Climate Change? – Who Needs To Fix It?
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What it is
- This animated video details the historic emissions of carbon by country and current emissions detailed in a variety of different ways, including by country, per capita, income level, and developed versus developing.
- It highlights the difficulties in getting global cooperation on reducing carbon emissions when some countries have contributed more to the problem than others and everyone is doing some finger-pointing.
- It presents solutions for the global community and indicates that all countries must do more to prevent catastrophic climate shifts that will affect everyone.
Teaching tips
Positives
- This resource provides a visually interesting and informative medium to learn about current and historical carbon emissions, as well as the challenges the world faces in gaining adequate cooperation from all countries to address climate change.
- The video utilizes many graphs and maps and draws many comparisons that could be useful in addressing a variety of questions.
Prerequisites
- Students should have some basic geography knowledge and be familiar with the topics of climate change and carbon emissions.
- Teachers may want to have data for current emissions for the countries mentioned, as 2017 is the most recent year for data mentioned in the video.
Differentiation & Implementation
- This resource has many cross-curricular opportunities, is rich in data, and is short enough to include in a number of lesson plans or assignments.
- Younger students can use the graphs to answer questions to help them compare data sets.
- Students in language arts classes can write a persuasive essay convincing countries to take action.
From the scientist review
This video shows historical emissions of CO2 from big polluters in relation to increasing population and demand for energy and high standard of living. This resource is suitable to provide insights to students to understand baseline and actual global emission and proffer solutions to a net zero emission target. The resource and data output is accurate and recommended for teaching.
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