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Climate change🌎 - Coggle Diagram
Climate change🌎
Causes
Burning fossil fuels
Coal and oil being used for energy
Releasing large amounts of carbon dioxide into the air
Deforestation
Forests being cleared for agriculture and construction
Less trees means less carbon being absorbed from the air
Industrial waste
Factories producing toxic byproducts
Chemicals seeping into soil and water supplies
Pollution
Air pollution from factories and vehicles
Toxic gases being released into the atmosphere daily
Effects
Animals going extinct
Habitats being destroyed leaving animals nowhere to live
Entire food chains collapsing as a result
Extreme weather
Hurricanes and storms becoming stronger and more frequent
Destroying homes in the most vulnerable regions
Rising sea levels
Dhroughts
Farmland drying up and becoming unusable
Crops failing and food supplies shrinking
Who it affects
Coastal communities
Coastal land being swallowed by the ocean
Entire communities at risk of losing their homes
Wildlife
Animals forced into smaller areas to survive
Species going extinct permanently
Farmers
Crops failing due to unpredictable weather
No income and no way to feed their families
Future generations
Inheriting a world with more problems than solutions
Having to deal with damage they did not cause
What art can do
Make people feel the urgency
People are more likely to act when they feel something
Making the issue feel immediate and not distant
Give the issue a face and make it feel real
Giving a voice to communities who are often ignored
Building empathy across different cultures and backgrounds
Show what is at stake
Turning abstract statistics into real emotional experiences
Making people actually see and feel the scale of the damage