Climate Crisis Action Plan
Glaciers melting, sea levels rising, the current rate of warming skyrocketing faster than at any point in recorded history, ticks moving farther north... In my last post we learned an overview of what climate change is, and climate change is not cool. However, it's not all doom and gloom! This post is a call for action, and instructions for how to do so. There are two main ways our society needs to fight climate change: mitigation and adaptation. Mitigation is efforts to fight climate change and lessen its impacts, such as using renewable energy to lower greenhouse gas emissions. Adaptation, on the other hand, is actions designed to help us live through the known effects of climate change. For example, people are designing buildings to withstand severe weather events that are predicted to worsen. Both mitigation and adaptation actions are necessary for our survival, and it's not just the polar bears we're fighting for. Now, are you ready t...