FIRST QUARTER PERFORMANCE-

II. HARMFUIL
BASED ASSESSMENT
ASHLEY CRUZ
I. INTRODUCTION EFFECTS OF
CLIMATE
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Climate change has a major impact on people and

is influencing how we live our daily lives. It
saddens me how our planet deteriorates by the
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day and how few people take action when we are
the ones who caused it and will suffer as a result. I 1. Rising sea levels endanger coastal
am deeply concerned about our environment and communities, and rising
will take action to protect it. According to

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temperatures increase the frequency
activesustainability.com (2019), one of the ways
of heat waves.
we can combat climate change is to practice the
2. Worsening air quality contributes to
three Rs of sustainability. This action can already

PLANET
do a lot to combat climate change, and we can
start with it and continue to make progress. I hope
that everyone will work together to combat
climate change and avoid its negative
the spread of certain diseases, and an
increase in extreme weather events is
one of the causes of a global increase

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in hunger and malnutrition.
consequences. We must remember that if we do
not act, we will all face the consequences sooner
TAKE ACTION NOW! or later. Climate change will forever change our
lives, and I hope that each of us can find ways to
fight it. Read more in this brochure to learn more
about climate change and how we can help fight
it before it's too late.

III. CHOOSING THE
RIGHT ACTIION AND
BENEFITS
HERE ARE SOME STEPS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
THAT WE CAN ALL TAKE TO HELP COMBAT
CLIMATE CHANGE.
1. If we practice the 3 Rs of
sustainability, then we can
prevent pollution caused by
reducing the need to harvest
new raw materials.
2. If we plant more trees, then
we can effectively reduce
atmospheric carbon dioxide
(CO2), which can limit global
warming.
V. RESOURCES
IV.
EPILOUGE
1. HTTPS://WWW.EPA.GOV/CLI
SINCE OUR PLANET IS DETERIORATING EACH DAY BECAUSE OF MATECHANGE-
CLIMATE CHANGE, WE MUST ACT NOW TO COMBAT IT AND AVOID
ITS NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES. IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY AS
HUMANS TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH WE LIVE. THE SCIENCE/IMPACTS-CLIMATE-
3 RS, ACCORDING TO AN ARTICLE I READ FROM ACTIVE
SUSTAINABILITY, CAN HELP COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE.
UNSUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION PATTERNS DEGRADE THE
ENVIRONMENT, WHICH CAN BE PREVENTED BY IMPLEMENTING THE
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3RS. REDUCING OUR CONSUMPTION IS A GOOD WAY TO PRACTICE
THE THREE RS; BY PRODUCING FEWER WASTES, WE CAN HELP THE 2. HTTPS://WWW.UN.ORG/EN/C
ENVIRONMENT. REUSING MATERIALS SUCH AS JARS, REUSABLE
CONTAINERS, OR ECO BAGS IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF REUSING
LIMATECHANGE/SCIENCE/KE
MATERIALS RATHER THAN HAVING THEM BE A ONE-TIME USE
ONLY. WE CAN SAVE MONEY BY NOT PURCHASING NEW ITEMS,
AND WE CAN ALSO HELP THE ENVIRONMENT, SO IT'S A WIN-WIN
SITUATION FOR US. RECYCLING, LIKE REDUCING AND REUSING, IS
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ALSO BENEFICIAL IN A VARIETY OF WAYS. WE CAN PREVENT
RECYCLABLE MATERIALS FROM ENDING UP IN LANDFILLS AND
GETTING WASTED, WHERE THEY CAN TAKE MANY YEARS TO
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DECOMPOSE. INSTEAD, WE CAN TRANSFORM THOSE MATERIALS
INTO SOMETHING NEW AND PUT THEM TO GOOD USE. 3. HTTPS://WWW.ACTIVESUSTA
ASIDE FROM THE 3 RS, WE CAN PLANT MORE TREES TO
EFFECTIVELY REDUCE ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2), INABILITY.COM/CLIMATE-
THEREBY LIMITING GLOBAL WARMING. BECAUSE TREES PLAY SUCH
AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN OUR ENVIRONMENT, THIS WILL GREATLY
BENEFIT OUR PLANET. THEY CAN HELP REDUCE STORMWATER, CHANGE/6-ACTIONS-TO-
PRODUCE FRESH AIR, PROVIDE A NATURAL HABITAT FOR
ENDANGERED SPECIES, ETC. WE CAN ACCOMPLISH SO MANY
WONDERFUL THINGS FOR OUR ENVIRONMENT BY DOING SO, ONE FIGHT-CLIMATE-CHANGE/?
OF WHICH IS COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE.
IT IS CRITICAL THAT WE TAKE ALL OF THESE STEPS IN ORDER TO _ADIN=02021864894
MAKE OUR PLANET A BETTER PLACE FOR ALL OF US. THESE STEPS
WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BENEFIT OUR ENVIRONMENT AND ASSIST IN
AVOIDING THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, SUCH AS
POOR AIR QUALITY, WHICH CONTRIBUTES TO THE SPREAD OF
CERTAIN DISEASES, AND RISING TEMPERATURES, WHICH INCREASE
THE FREQUENCY OF HEAT WAVES. WE MUST ACT NOW, BEFORE IT
IS TOO LATE, TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH WE LIVE! I
HOPE YOU HAVE LEARNED A LOT FROM THIS BROCHURE AND THAT
YOU WILL JOIN ME IN TAKING ACTION TO COMBAT CLIMATE
CHANGE. ALWAYS KEEP IN MIND THAT WE MUST ACT TO COMBAT
CLIMATE CHANGE!