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Cours 1 Matière: Introduction to the book Devoirs:

1.0 Information
- 20 essays from 20 different writers divided into 3 sections
- Wide rage of representation
- Editors: person who chooses the essays.
- The concept behind “Coming of age”: transition from childhood to adulthood
(traditions)
- It focuses on the millennial generation
- “The end of nature”: the title of a classic environmental book (introduced the
topic of climate change. By Bill McKibben.
- The nature isn’t over
- Compares how different generations think about climate change: political
affiliation

2.0 The forward of the book

- Bill McKibben is passing the torches to younger writers.

3.0 Part 1 “Living on Eaarth”

- The earth changed so much so we need to give it a new name.
- Talking about the big changes and explaining them

4.0 Part 2: Thinking like a river

- Long term vision
- Taking a step back

5.0: Part 3: Monkey

- Creative solutions

Cours 2 Matière: “Climate Changes. People Don’t” Devoirs:

- Young girl named Erin believes that global warming is propaganda.

- At school they teach about global warming.
- 2006: 79% of people say that they believe that global warming exists
- Later: 57%!
- Scientists and activists want to win people over by making teachers teach
about climate change.
- But in other states like Texas, teachers are forced to teach both sides

- Dr Roberta Johnson (scientist) and Erin’s interview

1. The doctor runs through the best arguments that the teachers at school
are thought to teach.

2. First part: measurements taken all over the world: we know that the
climate is warming: by the temperature in sea, ice and snows are
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defrosting, sea levels are rising. How do we know that this has an
association with greenhouse gasses and Carbone dioxide? Because we
also know that Carbone dioxide is increasing in the atmosphere

3. Second part: ice cores that are drilled in the Antarctic or in Greenland
and they record the annual temperature, the atmosphere composition,
dust, volcanic debris and they are analysed. Temperature and CO2 are
very closely correlated for over 400 years. Just based on the earth
position (tilt), the amount of CO2 should be way lower that it actually is
right now. 35% lower cause: human beings and machines we made that
spikes CO2.

4. She doesn’t think that climate change is a question of believes its science
base conclusions.

- Convincing or not: Not really because she already read a bit about it and she
thinks that they are still holes in the story (temperature and shrinking of the
ice caps: arguments against human warning. She talks about winter too.)
Weather is not the same as climate.

- She wants to know both sides of the story. She gets that human’s affect
climate but she really think’s that they are two sides of the argument. She
thinks it’s the same as evolution

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