Transcript Climate change campaign - Learn

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The weather’s gone crazy!
Global warming means that our planet is
heating up. Hotter temperatures mean
some places don’t get enough rain – but
some get too much. All over the world,
climate change is causing people more
and more problems.
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What are these women doing?
Christian Aid/Mike Goldwater/Network
They are wading through floodwaters to get clean water near
their homes in Bangladesh. Floods often destroy people’s
homes and crops.
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‘Each year the temperature seems to be
increasing and the floods seem to get worse.’
Sunita Ranidesh, Bangladesh
Christian Aid/Kevin McCullough
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Where do you think these women are going?
Christian Aid/Tom Pietrasik
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This is 12-year-old Champa from Bangladesh.
Christian Aid/Together TV
‘My father
bought his
land through
hard work
but the river
took it…’
►What do you think has happened to her?
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After flooding in Bangladesh, this family had to
live on the roof of their house for a month
Christian Aid/Kevin McCullough
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What can you see in this photo?
Christian Aid/Glynn Griffiths
This photo shows a flooded village in Kenya, Africa
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What can you see here?
Christian Aid/Elaine Duigenan
Less rainfall in some places in the world means
there are more droughts - there isn’t enough water
to drink or to grow crops
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What do you think this is a picture of?
Christian Aid/Mike Goldwater/Getty Images
It used to be a river in Somalia, Africa
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Around the world, people are trying to cope
with climate change …
Christian Aid/Harriet Logan/Network
‘I help fill sandbags to strengthen the riverbank.’
Chus, El Salvador
11 December 2007
Holding back
floodwaters with
sandbags in
Bangladesh
11 December 2007
Planting trees to
make the soil
healthier in
Senegal
11 December 2007
Finding different ways to make electricity
Christian Aid/Abbie Trayler-Smith
11 December 2007
What can
YOU
do about
it?
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www.globalgang.org
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