Now we Children save the World Tree b y Tree - Plant-for-the-Planet

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Introduction ....................... 6 1. Why we children have to act Felix explains: How everything began .............. 11 A presentation with consequences ......... 12 We are growing! ...................... 14 Prominent people with Plant-for-the-Planet .... 16 Wangari Maathai: Mama Miti – the “Mother of the Trees”. ...................... 19 Why Wangari took action ................ 20 Green Belt Movement. .................. 22 Why did I join? ..................... 26 2. What does climate change mean? Climate in crisis. ................... 30 Clara interviews the weatherman of ARD .................... 30 Climate change before our time ........... 33 What makes the climate ................. 34 The cycle of carbon dioxide .............. 35 Where coal and oil come from. ............ 35 Smoking chimneys. .................... 36 Man as the cause of climate change ........ 37 What is climate justice? ............ 42 Emissions trading, the simple thing that is hard to do. ..................... 44 What trees do against the climate crisis. .................. 46 3. What we can do What everyone can do … Or: Protecting the climate at home ... 52 What’s wrong with traffic? ................ 52 Energy eaters in the home ............... 53 The electricity supplier switch? ............ 55 How much CO2 is on my plate? ............ 55 About what you can do … Or: About school and school for life .................. 58 Tree by Tree … Or: The big planting party ........... 66 How you can find partners to join in. ........ 68 Where you can plant ................... 68 How you can find the best trees ........... 69 How and where to get the trees ........... 70 How you can bring attention to your planting party. .................. 71 How to turn planting into a real party. ....... 72 How your trees count. .................. 73 Trees for the south … Or: 10 € = 10 trees. ................ 74 Namibia (Africa). ...................... 75 Ecuador (Südamerika) .................. 76 Democratic Republic of the Congo (Africa) .... 76 Costa Rica (Central America) ............. 77 Malaysia (Asia) ....................... 77 A good answer to a dumb argument! ....... 78 “Run for Trees” ....................... 80 Our planet needs Climate Justice Ambassadors Or: The Plant-for-the-Planet academy ......................... 84 Module 1: Introduction Or: Hearing and discussing a Climate Justice Ambassador’s speech ............. 86 Module 2: Climate crisis Or: Discussing the topic of climate justice ...................... 88 Module 3: Rhetoric & style Or: Learning how to give short presentations .................... 89 Module 4: Planting actions Or: Planting and planning for more ......... 91 Appendix Module 5: World Café Or: We are active! ..................... 92 Module 6: Our first presentation ........... 93 We are the children of the World … Or: Our global planting-community ... 95 4. Our Vision Contact Information ................... 110 Acknowledgements ....................111 Image credits ........................112 Our Vision … Or: Thinking and acting as world-citizens ............ 102 The climate summits .................. 104 We should learn from recent history! ....... 105 What gives us courage? . ............... 106 Contents
Introduction The climate crisis is threatening our Earth, and we humans are responsible for it. If we continue to act as we have up to this point, then it results in catastrophic consequences. Yet, there is far too little being done to stop this. We children want to change that – especially with this book! We have written “Tree by Tree” primarily for people like us – kids and teenagers. Because we are the ones who will have to pay for it if adults cannot fully solve these worldwide problems. However, we are also consciously directing this book at adults – to parents, teachers, politicians, entrepreneurs, and other “decision-makers” in our society, because we want them to help us in what we are doing. Our student-initiative Plant-for-the-Planet was very small when it began in 2007 – but since then we have become a global movement. And as opposed to most adults, who are only willing to talk about climate change, we are actually doing something about it! We would first like to tell you how Plant-for-the-Planet began, and how it has developed into a really big (and exciting!) movement within such a short amount of time. You will learn what “climate change” means, as well as how much we humans contribute to it, and what we can do in order to better protect our environment. You will see why it is so important that we children commit ourselves to more climate protection and climate justice in this world. And we will explain to you why we are planting trees to achieve these goals. Naturally you can learn a lot of really exciting things too! For example: did you know much air a single tree can clean and why? Did you know the difference between the weather and the climate? Did you know how coal and oil are formed? What CO2 is and the impact it has on our atmosphere, or why it is so bad if the ice on Greenland and the Antarctic melts, or that there is a so-called “World Climate Summit” every year? etc… If there is something in this book that you don’t understand – for example a word or a phrase that you’re not familiar with --, just ask your parents, your teacher, or another adult. They are here, after all, to help us kids. Also, if you have internet access, you could take a quick look there too. You too can experience how great planting can be if you decide to join in and Speaking of help: many adults helped us write this book for you. For all of their help us! With this book, we hope to give you the courage to do so. hard work, we would especially like to say thank you to Melanie, Ulrike, Carsten, Veronika, Claus-Peter, and everybody from oekom Publishers. Thanks! Most importantly, we want to show you with “Tree by Tree” how easily you can 6 take part in what we are trying to achieve, and how much fun you can have doing it! 7 Felix & Friends
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