Climate Change and The Future

Aim; To look at the different ways we can prevent climate change in the future.

Changing Our Future

Name 3 fossil fuels?
Coal
Oil
Gas

What is the cost?
Carbon Dioxide

The CO2 level has soured since when?
Industrial Revulsion.

What are the effects in the UK?

1.    Hot Days
2.    Heat Waves
3.    Species Could disappear.

How many climate refugees will there be in Britain by 2050?

200 million

When will Fairborn be flooded?

26 years

What are some of the other things that will be 'swallowed by the waves'?

1.   1.5m homes in England at risk of flooding by 2080
2.   1000 toxic sites at risk
3.  100,00 homes at risk of coastal erosion.

How can we stop climate change?

1.    Replacing gas boilers in homes into something renewable.
2.    Run every car on some clean energy
3.     Plant 1.5 billion trees

What ideas are school children having about climate change?

1.   That they will die of climate change and not old age.
2.   Having a protest.
3.   Speaking up about climate change to politicians.
4.   Them not wanting to have kids of their own.

What is the atmosphere called?

a __Waste__ __Dump__.

What is the last statement the reporter made?

We know what we need to do, we have got the__technology__. What we lack is the

 __political__ will__.

How is sea level rise going to effect us in NZ

What places will be effected?

Veracious places in New Zealand.

What else do we need to think about?

People and new areas for them to leave.

What other places around NZ will be affected?

The pacific Islands.

What does this do to our drinking water?

Makes it Salt water.

What are the main concerns?

1. Coastal Erosion  
2. Coastal Flooding

What can we do to prevent climate change?

What can we do?

1.  Use less fossil fuels by using public transport. 
2.  Buy an electric car.   
3.  Design a house in a Eco friendly way.

Curbing climate change

What is the one, silver bullet solution?

There is no one silver bullet.

What is the mix of things we need to start doing?

1.   Renewable energy
2.   Solar heating
3.   Transport away from vehicles using fossil fuels and toward more electric vehicles.

What are 3 others you can think of?

1.   Walk to places not drive
2.   Recycle
3.   Reduce, Reuse, Repair.

My Investigation

Where does our food come from?

• Choose your favourite food.

1. Upload a picture of it. 
2. Draw a picture of it on A4.    

On your blog answer the following questions.

• Where does the food come from (e.g. is it from another province or country, was it purchased or made locally)? 

Pizza is from Italy

Butter Chicken is from India

• How many kilometers away did the food travel to get to you?

Pizza - 18,419,71 km

Butter Chicken- 12,010,12 km

• What are the main ingredients? 

Pizza- 

Cheese

Tomato Sauce

Dough

Butter Chicken - 

Chicken 

Rice 

Naan

• How is the food packaged? 

Pizza- In a box.

Butter Chicken- In a container or on a plate.

• What resources do you need to produce this food item (e.g. land, water, oil, food, etc.)? 

Pizza- 

• Wheat for the Crust. Pizza crust is made from wheat. Farmers plant tiny wheat kernels, or seeds, in the ground using a drill. 
• Tomatoes for the Sauce. Pizza sauce is made from tomatoes. Tomato plants take 75 to 85 days to produce ripe fruit. 
• Cheese from milk.

Butter Chicken - 

Chicken, 

Butter from milk.

Yogurt from milk.

Spice.

Green chillies that farmers plant takes about  2 to 4 weeks to grow.

Coriander that farmer plant takes about 7 to 9 days to grow.

• Would this item have been processed? 

Pizza- Some box pizza is processed and is more likely to have unhealthy ingredients.

Butter chicken- Butter Chicken is processed till it is very smooth.

• Is there anything unique or significant about the food item (e.g. fair-trade, local)? 

Pizza- Some pizzas are unique like New York they are known to have thin pizza with a lot of cheese. So in some ways in different places pizza is unique.

Butter Chicken- It is unique by it's flavour and spice. Also the fact that it was a accidental discovery.

• What else do you notice about this food that affects its climate friendliness? 

Pizza- The fact that pizza needs livestock to make it mean that it is contributing to the 18 percent of green house gas.

Butter Chicken- This contributes kind of like pizza because butter chicken needs livestock it to is contributing to the 18 percent of green house gas.

• Do you think this food is climate friendly (Circle)?       YES   NO ? 

• Why?
• Because for both I am not sure.
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