Spotlight on Climate Change: Climate Change Activism
for Mom and Dad
Table of Contents Chapter 1 A PLANET IN CRISIS 4 Chapter 2 A GLOBAL IMPACT 10 Chapter 3 YOUTH CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVISM 17 Chapter 4 LEADING THE WAY 23 You Can Help 29 Glossary 30 Learn More 31 Index 32
4 1 Chapter A PLANET IN CRISIS Melting polar ice caps rising sea levels and raging wildfires Why is Earth facing these problems The answer is climate change Human activities such as driving cars trap heat in the atmosphere and cause Earth's temperature to rise quickly More heat in the atmosphere makes natural disasters such as floods and droughts more likely
The hottest decade ever recorded was between 2010 and 2019. In Death Valley California two of the hottest temperatures ever recorded on Earth were in 2020 and 2021. Temperatures reached around 130 F 54 C both years Concerned people are taking action Climate change activists are fighting for our planet Climate change can make dangerous events such as wildfires more common 5
