Lynne Cherry
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YOUNG VOICES ON CLIMATE CHANGE MOVIE TRAILER Ethics and Social Responsibility This short video shows many young people talking about climate change solutions. There are young people from Team Marine, Green Ambassadors, Surfriders, Girl Scouts Show this film and discuss some of the points that the young people in the movie bring up. 1. Social Responsibility: 2. Is it okay for humans to destroy the earth? 3. Is it okay for one generation to destroy the earth for generations to come? 4. Is it okay for people to do nothing? 5. Do people have a responsibility to speak out if they see something wrong happening? 6. Do animals have rights? Does nature have rights? 7. Can we survive without nature? 8. Can one person make a difference? 9. Can kids make a difference? 10. What Bill Love-Anderegg says—Things have to reflect their true costs to everyone? What is the value of ecosystem services? Shannon McComb says, “if you adults won’t do something about global warming, we kids are going to have to take the reins.” Hannah Kirkegaard says, Adults are not going to be as long as kids—we’re going to be taking over the earth. It’s up the adults to do something now and not put it onto our generation. |
Lynne Cherry's Young Voices on Climate Change MOVIESTEAM MARINE BANS PLASTIC BAGS IN SANTA MONICA
 Danny from TEAM MARINE was one of the young people who helped ban plastic bags in Santa Monica. By doing this they prevented hundreds of thousands of tons of carbon dioxide, a global warming gas, from entering the atmosphere. TEAM MARINETeam Marine high-school students successfully campaigned to ban plastic bags in their city of Santa Monica. This was one of the first cities that banned plastic bags in the United States. The entire country of China has banned plastic bags thereby saving China hundreds of thousands of gallons of fossil fuel and preventing thousands of tons of global warming gas from entering the atmosphere. Here’s How You Can Ban Plastic Bags in Your Community 1. Talk to a teacher or the school principal and Show Lynne Cherry's Young Voices on Climate Change: Team Marine video at your school. 2. Hold meeting of student Team Marine and define roles and get a teacher or parent mentor. 3. Create a website for the new group you want to create and create a facebook page for it. Put Young voices trailer on your website. Click above to see the TEAM MARINE short movie. Send out the url for your website to the kids in your school and community. 4. Ask your principal or teacher if you can put on an assembly. Do a school assembly explaining how plastic bags use fossil fuel and how much co2 can be prevented from going into the atmosphere through a plastic bag ban. 5. After the assembly ask any students who are interested in helping to get a ban on plastic bags to stay and dress up as a plastic bag monster. 6. with a scientist, do a study like Yassi and Evelina did of the impact of plastic bags on ecosystems. Bring the study to the local media—TV, newspapers and do a BLOG. count and document (photography with a digital camera) # of bags on the trees along your local river . Find out how many bags are thrown away each day .. call your local waste management company. Find out the cost how much # could you save by reducing garbage. 7. go visit local politicians and get them to introduce a resolution to ban plastic bags in your community, town, city or state. 8. bring data and testisfy at town hall meetings as a plastic bag monster & bottlecap monster 9. publicize and hold rallies with posters and make sure there’s a plastic bag monster and a bottlecap monster –media: contact local media 10. once you win a ban on plastic bags, follow through and make sure it’s implemented making frequent visits and calls to your local politicians and PUBLICIZE YOUR SUCCESS AND WHY THE BAN IS IMPORTANT to you as a young person inheriting this Earth. Bring to the Assembly 1. AND PLAY the TEAM MARINE DVD 2. clipboards so students who want to create a Team Marine at their school can sign up 3. info sheets with the website url 4. Press Release: We at ____________ school want to try to ban plastic bags in because plastic bags: 1. affect global warming because they are made of fossil fuel 2. end up in the oceans where they are eaten by birds, mammals and it kills millions of them / year 3. litter waterways and roadways 4. never biodegrade—they stay around forever |
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