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Climate
change
We have been burning
large amounts of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas
for almost 200 years. This has enabled us to build the
modern societies that exist today. However, what we
didn’t know was that along the way we have been
creating the biggest problem that we have ever faced…
That problem is climate change. It goes like this: burning
fossil fuels produces gases like carbon dioxide which
collect in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is a so-called
‘greenhouse gas’ - that which naturally
exists in the atmosphere helps keep the planet warm
enough for life to exist. But by massively adding to
it we’re trapping too much heat in the system.
This is creating more extreme weather, melting of the
ice caps, floods and droughts. In turn this will cost
the lives of millions, ruin the livelihoods of hundreds
of millions more, severely affect animal and plant life
across the globe and cost millions of pounds.
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