1. SUSTAINABILITY, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND GLOBAL WARMING

2. What is Sustainability?
Balance of 3 factors: economic growth, preserving natural resources for future generations, and ensuring healthy communities.
Looking for new solutions and alternatives to environmental problems without sacrificing the other factors = Sustainable Solution

3. Indigenous Perspective on Sustainability
In Canada, part of our Sustainability project is to listen to Indigenous perspective.
Part of Truth and Reconciliation project
Earth Charter (U.N.) recognizes its importance
Why?
They lived in the land now-called North America for 12,000 years.

4. Indigenous Perspectives on Sustainability

6. Think of 7 generations ahead

7. Catholic Perspective on Sustainability
Pope Francis’ Encyclical asks us to recognize climate change and commit in changing the future through sustainable practices.
Consulted environmentalists such as Canadian Naomi Klein in conducting his Encyclical.

8. How does Global Warming happen?
Greenhouse Effect
Not all Greenhouse gases are bad.
Earth needs to retain heat
for life but too
much heat
causes
Global warming.

10. Types of Gas that causes Global Warming
Carbon – fossil fuels
Methane – animals PFC – byproducts of aluminum industry
N2O – anesthetic, fertilizers SF6 – production of Magnesium and insulation for major electrical equipment
HFC – car AC

11. Sources of Global Warming
Processing and use of fossil fuels (oil and gas)
How?
Burning fossil fuels contribute harmful carbon emissions to the environment.
Using fossil fuel as source of power in factories.
Using fossil fuel in transportation industry (buses, cars, planes, trucks).

12. b) Waste
How?
Consuming non-reusable, and non-recyclable items lead to more garbage.
In order to make room for garbage in the landfill, wastes are burned.
Burnt garbage contributes harmful carbon emission to the environment.

13. c) Livestock Agriculture
How?
In order to farm and feed millions of animals, farmers have to cut down forests (deforestation).
Cows produce 150 billion of methane gases/day ( L x 1.9 billion of cows).
- The transportation, and processing of livestock (burgers, steak, hotdogs) contributes carbon emission.

14. d) Deforestation and Urbanization
How?
Cutting down forests in order to make way for urban areas and/or urban industries.
No more carbon absorbers as trees, and other organisms (algae, etc) die as a result.

15. Causes of Global Warming

16. e) Water contamination (garbage, pipelines) How
e) Water contamination (garbage, pipelines) How? - Contaminating the water kills carbon absorbers under the ocean (plankton, etc)

18. As a result of Global Warming, our climate change happens
As a result of Global Warming, our climate change happens! Effects of climate change: - Extreme Weather conditions (drought/extreme cold/frequent hurricanes) - Glaciers melting which causes high water level (floods) - All of the above-effects affect food supply, and with a growing population (2 billion more by 2050!), this could lead to food insecurity; that is if we still have a place to live by then.

19. Climate Change

24. THINK-PAIR-SHARE
Think of sustainable solution to the causes of Global Warming?

25. Sustainable Solution to our problems?
a. Promote and Create
jobs that promote
the use of alternative
products that does not
contribute
harmful gasses.

26. b. Ecological Fiscal Reform
Tax breaks – lowering taxes for those who want to switch to alternative energy.
Carbon Tax – charging big businesses taxes for their carbon emission and waste contribution.

27. c. Vote and demand our politicians to support sustainability and act on the recommendations of UN Framework on Climate Change (UNFCC).
Kyoto Protocol (1997) – decrease greenhouse gases by a set amount