Climate Action (SDG 13)

https://sdg-tracker.org/climate-change 

1. Have you ever heard of the term “climate action”? If so, what do you imagine it to be? 

2. Can you think of other social problems that climate change action will bring? Let's list them.

Video Viewing

Watch the video with the playback speed of 0.75 to 1.00. View 2 or 3 times.

今視聴したビデオについて、下記の質問に答えてみよう。

(1) Human behavior has a profound impact on the environment over a wide area.　　 　   　 T/F  

(2) Greenhouse gases are slowly increasing today and are not a significant problem. T/F 

(3) It has been reported that climate change does not have a significant impact on human health. T/F 

 1の動画を使ってディクテーションをしてみましょう。

Human activities from pollution to overpopulation are _______ up the earth's temperature and fundamentally _______ the world around us. The main cause is a _______  known as the greenhouse effect. Gases in the atmosphere such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons let the sun's light in, but keep some of the heat from _______ like the glass walls of a greenhouse. ___________ greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, ___________ heat gets trapped strengthening the greenhouse effect and increasing the earth's temperature. Human activities like the _______ of fossil fuels have increased the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by more than a third since the Industrial Revolution. The rapid increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has warmed the planet at an alarming_______. While Earth's climate has fluctuated in the past, atmospheric carbon dioxide hasn't reached today's levels in hundreds of thousands of years. Climate change has _______ for our oceans, our weather, our food sources, and our health. Ice sheets such as Greenland and Antarctica are melting. The extra water that was once held in glaciers causes sea levels to rise and _______ out of the oceans flooding coastal regions. Warmer temperatures also make weather more extreme. This means not only more intense major storms floods and heavy snowfall _______ longer and more frequent droughts. These changes in weather _______ challenges. Growing crops becomes more difficult. The areas where plants and animals can live shift and water supplies are diminished. In addition to creating new agricultural challenges, climate change can directly affect people's physical health. In urban areas, the warmer atmosphere creates an environment that traps and increases the _______ of smog. This is because smog contains ozone particles which increase rapidly at higher temperatures. Exposure to higher levels of smog can cause health problems such as asthma heart disease and lung cancer. While the rapid rate of climate change is caused by humans, humans are also the ones who can _______ it. If we work to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources like solar and wind which don't produce greenhouse gas emissions, we might still be able to prevent some of the _______ effects of climate change.

ディクテーションの後、もう一度最初から聞いてみましょう。

(1) ペアを組んで、我々の行動と気候変動との関わりについて他の例を挙げてみよう。

(2) (1)で挙げた例を含め、我々はどのように気候変動を向き合っていく必要があると思いますか。ペアで話し合い、意見を言い合いましょう。