Terms
The growing crisis caused by disruptions in earth's weather and the planet's warming.
What is climate change (or crisis)?
These are some negative results of deforestation
What is habitat loss and CO2 emissions?
The sector with the highest emissions.
What is the energy sector?
A dietary choice you can make to help the planet and to reduce your own emissions
What is eating more vegetarian & plant based foods?
This describes the disproportionate impact of environmental hazards on people of color
What is environmental racism?
In this process, emitted fossil fuels prevent heat from escaping the atmosphere, warming our planet
What is the greenhouse effect?
This is one way California has experienced the effects of climate change
What are more extreme wildfires?
The country with the highest emissions per capita.
What is the United States?
What is supporting more sustainable businesses?
The movement that fights for equal environmental protections regardless of race or class.
What is the environmental justice movement?
Coal, oil, and natural gas are collectively known as this type of polluting energy source.
What are fossil fuels?
Climate change can create political disruption which creates an influx of these immigrants
What are climate refugees?
Climate change has many causes; Name 2.
What is deforestation, energy, transportation, fossil fuel burning, agriculture, waste creation?
Methods of participating in activism and political advocacy
What are phone banking, protesting, volunteering, or letter writing?
This is a term describing how identities and social movements intersect.
What is intersectionality?
This stands for the EPA
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
In this process, carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere reacts with water making oceans acidic and hurting fish
What is ocean acidification?
The name of the current Administrator of the EPA.
Who is Lee Zeldin?
This is the process of taking CO2 out of the atmosphere
What is carbon sequestration?
These two cities have fought against the climate crisis by banning public fossil fuel ads.
What are Amsterdam and Florence?