Pillar 1 : Systems Understanding - (SILVER AWARD)

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After completing Bronze, you use (directly) a chapter of The Climate Academy Student book to teach climate change from a systems perspective. It is when we teach something that we learn most deeply.

This teaching can happen inside or outside of school.

Inside school:

Option1:

Give a presentation:

• In a Geography lesson about tipping points and how close they are.
• In an Economics lesson about the limits to growth and the paradox of innovation.
• In a Physics or Chemistry lesson about carbon budgets and why they matter.
• In a Literature lesson about how rational climate anxiety is and how irony can help.
• A History lesson about the ‘3.5% rule’ and how social tipping points can be triggered.
• In a Psychology lesson about ‘motion blindness’, ‘status quo bias’ or about ‘the grammar’ of our climate awareness.
• In a Sociology lesson about Dan Kahan’s insights into the public communication of science.
• In an Ethics or Religion class about the injustices exposed by the CUTx Index.

Option2:

• Read a book, research paper, or article - Watch a documentary or lecture  - about the sustainability crisis. Present your findings to your Climate Academy group.
  • How did the research advance your understanding?
  • How did the research confirm or challenge your previous understanding?
  • Did the book/paper/documentary/lecture properly recognise the planetary boundaries and the background reality of the CUTx Index? 

Outside school:

Give a presentation to:

• Your mum’s Tuesday Evening Knitting Group
  • Present the latest science on the carbon budgets and outline the role that Global North consumerism plays in pushing us over different planetary boundaries.
  • Pictured – Vappu Väänänen (Climate Academy, 2019) does exactly this.

• Your uncle’s place of work
  • Present the basic science of climate tipping points and how they expose our limited and misleading media coverage of the crisis.
• A local NGO that is committed to the environment or social justice.
  • Present the CUTx Index and how it can really sharpen our understanding of the causes of climate change and biodiversity loss.  

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