What is climate change?
Climate change is a long term change in climate. The has always been changing, with things as the amount of engery that comes from the sun and or the amout of gasses in the atmosphere. But the problem is that all of these changes have been slow, and how their speeding up, it’s moving faster than it has at any time in human history.
What is causing climate change/global warming?
There are alot of causes of climate change though one of the main and most biggest are greenhouse gasses. Gasses that are produced by humans make their way up to the earth’s atmosphere. When the gasses get all the way up to the atmosphere they superchange the earth’s already natural greenhouse effect by trapping it in the way type of way the roof of a greenhouse would, this results in an enchanced greenhouse effect.
Why do ākonga (students) throughout Aotearoa and globally want to go on strike from school and protest?
They want to go on strike for so people become aware of what’s happening to the world, and so people will look at them and actually try and take a stand, specially higher ups such as the goverment, prime minister, etc. Costal areas in New Zealand will start to face greater erosion and flooding. Climate Change will increase the likeihood of tropical diseases, ones like dengue fever and malaria. Each year the sea levels in New Zealand will rise to about 3.5mm and gobally Climate Change will affect things in New Zealand like immigration, food shortages, and political instabiliy.