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Changing Climate - Coggle Diagram
Changing Climate
Basics (What?)
The actual problem
Average temperatures rising by 1.1°C since 1850
Ice sheets losing 280 billion tonnes per year
Sea levels up 20cm in the last century
What's making it worse
Burning coal and oil for electricity
Power plants release CO2 every second
Most of the world still runs on fossil fuels
Eating meat and dairy
Cows produce more emissions than all cars combined
Chopping down forests
Amazon losing an area the size of a football pitch every minute
What we're already seeing
Wildfires burning longer and hotter
Coral reefs turning white and dying
Floods destroying homes that never flooded before
What happens if we do nothing
250 million climate refugees by 2050
Entire island nations disappear underwater
Food shortages from failed harvests
Environment (Who?)
People already suffering
Farmers in sub-Saharan Africa losing crops to drought
Communities in Bangladesh flooded out of their homes
Indigenous people watching their land dry up
People causing the most damage
The richest 1% produce more emissions than the poorest 50%
Big oil companies knew since the 1970s
Frequent flyers and long-haul travellers
People trying to fix it
Climate scientists sounding the alarm for decades
Young activists like those in the School Strike movement
Engineers building cheaper solar and wind tech
Future generations
Kids alive today will live through the worst of it
Decisions made now will affect people not yet born
Environment (Where?)
Places disappearing
Tuvalu and Maldives — could be underwater by 2100
Glacier National Park — 80% of glaciers already gone
Arctic sea ice at its lowest recorded levels
Places being destroyed by extreme weather
California — wildfire season now almost year round
Pakistan — one third of the country flooded in 2022
Australia — Great Barrier Reef suffering mass bleaching
Cities under threat
Jakarta sinking into the sea, Indonesia moving its capital
Miami Beach spending billions on raising roads
Venice flooding more frequently every year
Where change is actually happening
Denmark generating 50%+ of electricity from wind
Costa Rica running on nearly 100% renewable energy
Germany phasing out coal entirely by 2038
Operations (How?)
Things individuals can do
Switch to a plant-based diet even a few days a week
Stop taking short-haul flights where trains exist
Switch energy supplier to a renewable tariff
Things governments need to do
Stop subsidising fossil fuel companies (currently $5.9 trillion/year globally)
Build public transport so people don't need cars
Make it cheaper to insulate homes
Technology that could help
Direct air capture pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere
Green hydrogen replacing gas in heavy industry
Cheaper batteries making electric vehicles accessible
What's already working
Solar power now the cheapest electricity in history
Electric vehicle sales doubling every two years
Reforestation projects restoring millions of acres